tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136234296019208070.post4498690934934675601..comments2024-01-04T17:03:23.915+00:00Comments on <a href="http://leftfromthewest.blogspot.ie">Left From The West</a>: Bias, Bona Fides, & the Boston Tapes: An Interview with Anthony McIntyreAlfie Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16403732604779381173noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136234296019208070.post-91379046871663722352020-02-07T22:57:11.808+00:002020-02-07T22:57:11.808+00:00Mackers' memory of the origin of the archive i...Mackers' memory of the origin of the archive is wrong. He and I had been kicking around the idea of an archive devoted to republicans, and designed to rescue this narrative from the tidal wave of leadership-led lies & revisionism that threatened to overwhelm their versions of history. After a couple of years we gave up, primarily because we could think of no way to guarantee confidentiality and safety in any Irish or British institution. So we had more or less abandoned the idea when Paul Bew, Mackers' PhD tutor arrived back from a year's sabbatical at Boston College. At BC the librarian, Bob O'Neill confessed his embarrassment to discover after the GFA that the college had noting in its archives on the Troubles. He wanted to rectify this and asked Bew to ask around when he got back to Belfast. The trail then led from him to Mackers and then to me and I explained OUR idea to him and he agreed to put it O'Neill. It was NOT Bew's idea; it was OURS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136234296019208070.post-64434240603672237652014-05-29T08:50:58.224+01:002014-05-29T08:50:58.224+01:00Alfie,
thanks for spending so much time on the gr...Alfie,<br /><br />thanks for spending so much time on the grilling! You certainly got beneath the surface discourse. Now you will be an enemy of the peace process!!<br /><br />Anthony <br /><br />AnthonyAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.com