Comments on The Pensive Quill: Chris Bray: Nom Nom Nom

Pied Cow is correct BC is a cesspit of Vatican and...

2012-01-30T21:25:37.446Z

Pied Cow is correct BC is a cesspit of Vatican and US intelligence.

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2012-01-28T21:46:33.433Z

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Pied Cow, What is so incomprehensible about break...

2012-01-28T19:30:49.715Z

Pied Cow,

What is so incomprehensible about breaking away from white-knuckle textbook history penned to express the view of the victor?
It is a unique exercise in deconstructing the past as seen through the experiences of both former Loyalist and Republican combatants.

Probably for the same reasons former Loyalist participated in the project and I assume felt that Boston College was safe ground or I should say given the American government was instrumental in the peace process and without said involvement, a project like this would have been unthinkable.

Pied Cow hindsight as they say is a wonderfull thi...

2012-01-28T15:14:30.010Z

Pied Cow hindsight as they say is a wonderfull thing the oral history project is a truly worthwhile project and necessary if we or future generations are ever to make sense out of our recent past,I recall the interviews on RTE of recollections from members of Óglaigh na hÉireann from "the war of independence" and it was amazing to hear their accounts of actions carried out in that time,Dixie has said in another post if history cant be told by those who actually lived through it,then how can future generations know what actually happened ,Boston College had undertaken a truly worthy project recording histories from both sides of the conflict,future generations would have applauded this project and the people who had the vision to initiate it,now it seems we shall have nothing but a revisionist history and you can guess who will write that...

I've been watching the events involved in this...

2012-01-28T13:10:20.635Z

I've been watching the events involved in this case and some aspects of it strike me as rather incomprehensible.

Most important, why would evidently senior IRA members even think of putting their trust into an American university, particularly into one with such close ties to the government apparatus?