” every so often the IPR hits a protruding nail squarely on the head. The example of the late Peter Hart comes to mind.”
I suspect because most other Irish historians didn’t subject
Hart’s work to the critical scrutiny it required, the IPR spotted
a “gap in the market” and cynically went after it. The fact
the IPR was right about “The IRA and Its Enemies” being
factually inaccurate, doesn’t magically validate the other
false and harmful material the magazine and
its sister publications put out.