Belfast Project

[3] Former IRA prisoner turned academic Anthony McIntyre conducted interviews with Irish republican paramilitary members (including Brendan Hughes, Dolours Price, Ivor Bell, and Richard O'Rawe[4]), while Wilson McArthur, East Belfast resident with strong loyalist ties, conducted interviews with loyalist paramilitary members.

[2][1][6] Interviews with Hughes and David Ervine[7] were used (after their deaths) as the basis for Moloney's 2010 book Voices From The Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland, drawing attention to the archive.

[10] Moloney and McIntyre filed a lawsuit seeking to block this request, arguing that it placed project participants at risk.

[14] Boston College announced via a student publication in 2014[15] that it was ending the project, returning tapes to living participants upon request.

[16] Interviewer Anthony McIntyre had himself contributed a recorded interview to the Belfast Project, which were also subsequently subpoenaed by the PSNI in 2018; in April 2024, the courts ultimately ruled in favor of the PSNI accessing the tapes, only five days before the cut-off date of May 1, 2024 set by the Troubles Legacy Act, after which point all active historical investigations and no further inquests into Troubles-era crimes can be launched.