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Article: Troubles secrets to be revealed

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November 9, 2009
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SOME of the darkest secrets of the IRA and loyalist paramilitary killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland are set to be revealed in the coming years as direct participants' accounts are released.

The accounts were given to academic researchers from the prestigious Boston College on strict condition that they could only be released with the express permission of the ex-terrorists, or in the event of their deaths.

The college's Irish Institute has spent the last six years and millions of dollars paying researchers to interview the former IRA men and loyalists.

Two sets of accounts from the archive are set to be published early next year by Faber & Faber in a book ...

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