Keith
For somebody who likes to intervene on mudcat Irish history threads you show a remarkable ignorance of the currents within Irish historical research. That's the relevance of the last link I supplied to this debate : it indicates your ignorance and partly explains the contradictions that flow from your ignorance of these currents.   . You were castigating the Irish government over its handling of the WW2 soldiers' pardon campaign a year or so ago. And now you are paying tribute to a magazine edited by Tommy Graham of all people! Graham would be the very type of republican apologist condemned by the likes of you in 2011 for refusing to endorse the pardoning of WW2 Irish army deserters.
You are not aware of the fact that HI was founded by a republican sympathiser who has very similar views to those held by Tim Pat Coogan on issues such as the famine. Coogan would be held in high regard by the magazine's editors. As far back as 2004 letters were being sent to the magazine complaining about the "soft" HI interview that had been conducted by a republican academic with Coogan . One critic complained that "[t]he nationally minded renowned academic Professor Bradshaw afforded the green light to Mr Coogan in every sense of the word, allowing him to propagate, unchallenged, his Gaedhil distorted nationalist image of Irish history." Coogan reply is published as well here :
http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/tim-pat-coogan
Your bafflement at what you perceive to be contradictory positions taken by Dr Kineally in regards to revisionism shows that you simply don't understand how the word "revisionism" is used in Irish historical studies.