“The IRA imposes a code of silence akin to the concept of ‘omerta’ in the Mafia,” the brief noted. As such, people like Dolours Price were willing to participate in the oral history only with the assurance “that the interviews would be kept locked away.” In an affidavit, Moloney noted that “it is an offense punishable by death” for IRA members to reveal details of their paramilitary careers to outsiders.
And yet half of them were informers??? That's what y'all said in an earlier chapter...
