No such category as revisionist historian

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.

Illogically, but significantly, Mr Meehan does not use a comparable qualifying adjective (‘nationalist’, ‘traditionalist’) in describing historians Meda Ryan and Brian Murphy.

In truth, there is no such category as revisionist historian, presumed to engage in some kind of anti-nationalist enterprise.