What is the Belfast Project, also known as the Boston Tapes?and the directorship of journalist and writer Ed Moloney was designed to provide an oral history of the Troubles. Former republican and loyalist paramilitaries gave interviews to the project on the basis of commitments that their names and the interviews could not be released until after their deaths. It transpired, however, that this confidentially commitment only applied in “so far as American law allows”.
In Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Say Nothing, about the murder of Jean McConville, the author reported that Bell plotted to overthrow Adams but that the Sinn Féin leader was alerted to this threat and Bell was “court-martialled”. According to Say Nothing, Bell could have faced an IRA death penalty but Adams intervened on his behalf, with the result that Bell retreated from the movement. Bell did not appear in court as the prosecution accepted he is suffering from vascular dementia.
Pat McClure was a senior IRA figure during the 1970s, at one time the intelligence officer for its Belfast brigade, according to Ivor Bell in the Boston tapes. In the tapes Bell said McClure and Adams said she should be killed and secretly buried. Former IRA prisoner Dolours Price, now deceased, said she and McClure and a third person were actually at the graveside when they shot and buried McConville on Shellinghill Beach.
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: IrishTimes - 🏆 3. / 98 Read more »
Source: thejournal_ie - 🏆 32. / 50 Read more »