Ed Moloney was noted for the quality of his sources on all sides of the Northern Ireland conflict. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Born: 1948
Died: October 17th, 2025
Award-winning journalist and author Ed Moloney, who has died in New York aged 77, was an outstanding chronicler of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Writing for several outlets during a lengthy career, notably for this newspaper, the Sunday Tribune and, before either, Hibernia and Magill magazines, he was noted for the quality of his sources on all sides of the conflict and, consequently, the authority of the information he provided his readers.
He authored, and co-authored, several groundbreaking books, including the exceptionally detailed A Secret History of the IRA.
In later life, he expanded his work portfolio into TV documentaries, the controversial and ultimately discontinued Boston College Belfast Project, as well as an online blog, The Broken Elbow.
Famously grumpy at times, editors and friends tolerated his occasional mood swings because of the quality of his work. Reactions were tempered also by the knowledge that Moloney endured lasting pain caused by childhood polio and arthritis. He wore leg calipers and walked with the aid of a stick for much of his life.
Edmund (Ed) Moloney was born in England in
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