Ed Moloney is an Irish journalist who now lives and works in New York City. For most of his professional life he covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland, writing for the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune. A former Irish journalist of the year, he has published work in a variety of newspapers and magazines in Ireland, the UK, and the United States, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Economist, The Independent, The Guardian and The New Statesman.
Moloney is the author of three books dealing with aspects of the Irish Troubles, A Secret History of the IRA (2007), Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat? (2008) and Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland (2010). He has also helped to produce documentaries for the BBC, Channel Four, London Weekend Television and a recent RTE documentary, Voices From the Grave, which was based on his book and was shortlisted for best documentary prize by the Irish Film and Television Academy.
Ed glad to see your views have mellowed a bit on the ould taigs. good luck eamon
Eamon – Glad to see you’re still torturing those poor goats!
Hi Ed,
I wanted to send you a query re Voices from the Grave. Is there an email address you give out for stranger-mail? Thanks…
Hello Ed,
I am a Brazilian journalist who works as International Correspondent for the website http://www.operamundi.com.br.
They are doing a serie of special reports about the effects that 9/11 had in different countries. My part is to talk about the effect that 9/11 caused on IRA.
I wonder if you can help me. Can you give me an interview?
Please, send your contatc details to correspondents.eu@hotmail.com
Thank you, Juliana Yonezawa
I am doing a piece for them about the effects that
Hello Ed,
Reference your article in the Irish Times (September 24th). Martin McGuiness was never a member of Óglaigh na hÉireann. He was however a member of the Provisional IRA. There is only one Óglaigh na hÉireann and that is the Irish Defence Forces. The Irish Defence Forces has a proud history of defending the sovereignty of the Republic of Ireland from the threat to this state that was the Provisional IRA.
Regards Philip
Hi
Edward
Your blog is of interest to me for many reasons as you may expect.
I trust that you do not expect mine to be always in agreement with your anti IRA writing.
History cannot be re-written.
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Mr Moloney, started reading ” Voices From The Grave” and to be quite frank page 28 has made me doubt the veracity of Mr Hughe’s period between 1962 and 1969 makes me doubtful of his recollections.
I too was born in 1947, left school in 1962, didn’t pass the 11 plus but went to a technical college most of my contemporaries attended secondary school from the age of 11 to 15, so for Mr Hughes to say he went straight from primary school to employment was a total lie. I joined the merchant navy in 1963, where I lived (Carrickfergus) quite a few lads did the same, and quite a few went to the Merchant Navy School at Gravesend. At Sharpness the school was on board an old sailing ship ” The Vindicatrix” which didn’t close until 1966, again Mr Hughes told a total lie. He then says he went to sea in 1967 and left in 1969, it must have been 1967 for he says he went to sea for 2 years. I am finding it hard to find out what Mr Hughes actually did between the age of 16 when he was eligble for sea training school and the age of 20, which he would have been in 1967. This part of his story must bring into question all his recollections.
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I don’t have the book with me right now so I can’t check on what you say. Keep in touch though and we’ll have a look at this later.