florrie
there is a post of a letter circulated from coughlan on that political world page 13 of a tread called the IRA 1956-69: Rethinking the Republic” by Matt Treacy.
http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=12215&page=11
guessing that is what tracy is referring to on that politics.ie link
would say its fair on couglans part to say that there is no empathy jumping off the page for the characters. that said Tracy was threatened with legal action for quoting someone who said they believe himself and johnson where members of the IWP at the same time as Johnson being on the army council, he did find a membership list of the IWP to subsequently back that up and his book on the early years of the CP does show form. maybe he is a bit pissed for having his first work dismissed. wouldn’t say his book is nasty but if coughlan reads it that way fair enough, not the only one being nasty is all this tough.
end of the day so what but that goes to people trowing mud at him as well. not that he is beyond that himself he threw a bit of mud on this site. would be better for this debate if people on the pitch stuck to playing the ball than the man.