The Chronicle on Sunday published “Secrets From Belfast,” the story of a Boston College oral-history project gone awry. The Belfast Project, as it came to be known, recorded the stories of paramilitary members on both sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. The researchers promised interviewees complete secrecy until their deaths. That promise ran aground when the British police sought access to the interviews in a murder investigation.
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