Anthony McIntyre is a former Provisional IRA volunteer, writer and historian. He grew up in the nationalist Lower Ormeau Road
Anthony McIntyre is a former Provisional IRA volunteer, writer and historian. He grew up in the nationalist Lower Ormeau Road area of south Belfast. He was imprisoned for 18 years in the Maze Prison for the murder of Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member Kenneth Lenaghan in 1976. McIntyre shot the 35-year-old Lenaghan from a passing car as he stood outside Victor's Bar in Donegall Pass, south Belfast. McIntyre spent four of those years on a dirty protest. After his release from prison in 1996 he completed a in history at Queens University Belfast and subsequently worked as a journalist and researcher. A collection of his journalism was published as a book in 2008, Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism. McIntyre was involved with the Boston College oral history project on the Irish troubles, conducting interviews with former IRA members such as Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price and loyalists such as David Ervine. The interviews were the basis for the book "Voices From The Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland" by Ed Moloney. In 2011 McIntyre became embroiled in controversy when transcripts of the interviews, held by Boston College, were subpoenaed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in relation to an investigation of the 1972 abduction and killing of Jean McConville. McIntyre is a prominent critic of modern-day Sinn Féin and its leadership.
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