Dolours Price, the former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who was at the center of a legal fight surrounding an oral-history project at Boston College, was found dead in her home outside Dublin on Thursday. The police said her death may have been the result of a drug overdose, and foul play was not suspected. A pair of researchers has been fighting in court to prevent interviews with Ms. Price from being released to British authorities, who are investigating the circumstances of a murder that occurred in 1972. In a statement, the college expressed regret at the news of Ms. Price’s death but said it couldn’t speculate on what effect her death might have on the legal proceedings.
- Source: Ap
They blamed the police’s pursuit of her testimony for hastening her death — and vowed that their own legal fight to prevent police from receiving any tapes from the Boston College archive would continue “with renewed vigor.”
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