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One of the lines of attack of the irish 'historical revisionists' - basically anti-republican propagandists masquerading as 'iconoclasic historians - has been to present the IRA in West Cork during the war of independence as Catholic sectarians who carried out 'ethnic cleansing' against Protestants and who shot dead a bunch of Crown Forces personnel who had already surrendered (the famous Kilmichael Ambush led by legendary IRA figure Tom Barry. This nonsense has been shot down by a number of other historians, including local Cork historian Meda Ryan, who methodically took apart the arguments of Prof Peter Hart over Kilmichael - Hart's 'evidence' including interviews he did with people who were actually dead at the time he claimed he interviewed them. The Aubane Historical Society has been to the forefront of challenging the historical revisionists and have just produced an excellent new pamphlet on the latest controversy about West Cork, arising from a revisionist-dominated West Cork History Festival. https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/the-first-west-cork-history-festival-and-west-corks-war-of-independence-sectarianism-the-kilmichael-ambush-tom-barry-and-peter-hart/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
