{"id":91460,"date":"2025-10-19T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91460\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:24:06","slug":"troubles-journalist-ed-moloney-dies-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91460\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubles journalist Ed Moloney dies aged 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Ed Moloney has died aged 77, his family has said.<\/p>\n<p>He was known for his coverage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the activities of the Provisional IRA, writing for publications including Magill, the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote about the Troubles in books, &#8216;A Secret History of the IRA&#8217;, &#8216;Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?&#8217; and &#8216;Voices from the Grave: Two Men&#8217;s War in Ireland&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Moloney was the director of Boston College&#8217;s Belfast Project, known as the Boston tapes, which collected oral interviews with republican and loyalist militants who had been active during the Troubles.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Moloney died in New York City on Friday, where he had been living and working.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Joan McKiernan and his son Ciar\u00e1n Moloney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Journalist Ed Moloney has died aged 77, his family has said. He was known for his coverage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-91460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}