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Source: The Independent

5-7-14

Boston tapes were never meant to be part of current affairs – they're a history project

by Diarmaid Ferriter

During the 1930s in Ireland, politicians, educators and IRA veterans expressed increasing concern about the urgency and importance of collecting testimony from survivors of the War of Independence for historical posterity.

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Boston tapes were never meant to be part of current affairs – they're a history project

by Diarmaid Ferriter