Anthony McInytre – Peter Geoghegan

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 […]

Turning point in history

By peterPosted on 19th June 2011Posted in Irish Examiner, Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Anthony McInytre, Bobby Sands, Danny Morrison, Hunger Strikes

On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker is still regarded as a hero of republicanism, says Peter Geoghegan. (From the Irish Examiner, May 5, 2011). THIS tendentious analysis of the death, and life, of Bobby Sands appeared in the Guardian on May 6, 1981. The previous day the Belfast […]