United States v. Trustees of Boston College

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

As part of its academic mission, Boston College (“BC”), an institution of higher learning, undertook research into the armed conflict surrounding the independence movement of Northern Ireland during the second half of the Twentieth Century. In the course of said research, which it labeled the “Belfast Project” (“Project”), BC compiled extensive oral histories in the form of personal interviews and testimonies from formerly active participants in that volatile period, including from past members of the Irish Republican Army (“IRA”) and its various related…