I refer to recent two-part TV3 documentary, In the Name of the Republic, presented by Professor Eunan O’Halpin of Trinity College Dublin.

Several leading historians will be in Cork this weekend to discuss one of the bloodiest sectarian massacres of the War of Independence.

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BRENDAN CAFFERTY must have seen a different programme than the Cork “bloody secret” I saw on RTÉ. He says “it is commendable to see a light being shone into such a dark corner of our history” (Letters, October 8) . That is precisely what was not done.

NIALL GINTY (Letters, November 19) and Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, November 11) both commented on my letter to you (November 9).

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WHILE I understand John Smith’s sentiments in wishing to ‘let the dust settle on old battles’ (Irish Examiner letters, August 26), I would like to remind him why this dust was raised in the first place.

I READ with interest the letter from Robin Bury headlined ‘Protestants targeted by IRA men with a personal agenda during War of Independence’ (Irish Examiner, July 10).

IN his letter headlined ‘Sectarian killings in South were nowhere near those in North (Irish Examiner, July 17), Niall Meehan says the “unjustifiable killings broke the terms of the Truce and they were immediately condemned by all sections of republican opinion”.

IN his letter headlined ‘Sectarian killings in South were nowhere near those in North (Irish Examiner, July 17), Niall Meehan says the “unjustifiable killings broke the terms of the Truce and they were immediately condemned by all sections of republican opinion”.

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.

WHILE I have not seen Ken Loach’s The Wind that Shakes the Barley, I can bet that, like similar films previously, it is aimed at a certain audience mostly of the nationalist Irish/American type.

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.

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

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.

EVERY so often a new movie sparks great interest in the period of the War of Independence. Growing up in the 1950s, I often heard stories about the Black and Tans but never from anyone who was actually involved.

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'.