"You are not well placed to dismiss her view of contemporary Irish historians."
I most certainly do not "dismiss her view" - I assume we cross-posted and you are not going to ignore what she had to say as you have ignored everything else that does not suit.
All a little academic anyway as Christine Kinealy (correct spelling - so far you've given us three versions Kinealy, Kineally and Kearney, while having the temerity to take me up on the spelling of her name) is one of those who contradict your claims - I don't suppose you would like to comment on what she has to say would you - I thought not!
"You are not, and neither is Cougan."
I assume you mean 'Coogan' - you really are having a bad hair day!
Coogan is neither an IRA supporter or a fraudster as you have described him.
His status in Ireland is unquestioned and the research carried out for his numerous works (see below) makes him every bit a historian as his fellow "revisionist" Christine Kineally.
Your mantra-like repetition of "majorities" and "respected historians" is totally meaningless while you refuse to produce names and quotes.
" have been derided or dismissed by many within the academic establishment,"
I would be extremely grateful if you could produce some evidence of your claims on Woodham Smith, Kee, Coogan - and anybody else who doesn't share your quaint (and as I said, shambolic) view of history.
Again, yours in anticipation
Jim Carroll

Ireland Since the Rising (1966)
The I.R.A. (1970) - revised 1995, 2002
The Irish: a personal view (1975)
On the Blanket: the H Block story (1980)
Ireland and the Arts (1986)
Disillusioned Decades: Ireland 1966-87 (1987)
Michael Collins: a biography (1990) - published in the U.S. as 'The Man Who Made Ireland'
Eamon De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (1993) - published in the U.S. as 'The Man Who Was Ireland'
The Troubles: Ireland's ordeal and the Search for Peace (1995)
The Irish Civil War - with George Morrison (1998)
Wherever Green is Worn: the Story of the Irish Diaspora (2000)
1916: the Easter Rising (2001)
Ireland in the Twentieth Century (2003)
A Memoir (2008)
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy (2012)