IN his article headlined ‘Sectarian wind up’ (Irish Examiner, June 26), Niall Meehan continues a regrettable tendency in referring to the historian Peter Hart as ‘revisionist’, a word having derogatory implications.

LIKE many of your readers I am very interested in the issues raised by Jack Lane and Meda Ryan in recent correspondence on the Kilmichael ambush.

I HAVE been following the media battle between historians Meda Ryan and Peter Hart for some time now.

THE controversial revisionist historian Dr Peter Hart is to speak on political violence at the Irish Historical Society in UCC on Tuesday next. One of the events in Irish history on which Dr Hart made his reputation is the Kilmichael ambush of November 1920.

ONE wonders why some revisionist historians try to distort the facts of the Kilmichael ambush.

THE unfounded and inaccurate allegations made by Peter Hart regarding the manner in which Tom Barry conducted the ambush at Kilmichael on November, 28, 1920 were again challenged by Meda Ryan, author of 'Tom Barry, IRA Freedom Fighter'.

THE 84th anniversary of the Kilmichael ambush, one of the major engagements of the War of Independence, was commemorated on Sunday, November 28, in the presence of 1,000 people at the ambush site.