Belfast Project – Peter Geoghegan

Belfast Project — Links to the Past Under Attack

By peterPosted on 14th August 2012Posted in Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Anthony MacIntyre, Belfast Project, Ed Moloney

LEGAL action over an interview with a former IRA member may threaten our ability to record history, writes Peter Geoghegan. ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These words, penned more than a century ago by Spanish-American poet and essayist George Santayana, could have been written about Northern Ireland today. So […]

The Troubles at Boston College

By peterPosted on 23rd January 2012Posted in Education, Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Anthony McInytre, Belfast Project, Boston College, Ed Moloney

Boston College-Belfast Project case and its ramifications for academic freedom and social inquiry. From Times Higher Education. The folk tale about the academic who accidentally deleted his data is older than the PC, but have you heard the one about the researchers who asked their institution to destroy all their work? No? Well that’s exactly […]