Sir,—David Fitzpatrick’s review (HI 21.5, Sept./Oct. 2013) of John Borgonovo’s Dynamics of War and Revolution: Cork City, 1916–18 devoted a paragraph to defending Peter Hart. The section contained a factual error: Hart’s The IRA and its Enemies (1998) did not assert that IRA commander Tom Barry engaged in ‘sectarianism’. It contained also a curiosity: Fitzpatrick ... Read more
