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Citations
- ↑ "BICO Is Dead—Long Live BICO!" by Jack Lane, A Review of What? Irish Political Review, Jan. 2009, pp. 36–37 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ An Phoblacht "Hart Trouble Diagnosed" Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Review of the AHS' book Troubled History, which is critical of Hart
- ↑ For the AHS' criticism of Bowen, see "The Dubliner:The Life Times & Works of James Clarence Mangan", Clifford 1988, "A North Cork Anthology" by Jack Lane, 1993, and "Notes on Eire" by Clifford & Lane 2008.
- ↑ See, for instance, Myths From Easter 1916 by Eoin Neeson (AHS, 2007), and About Behaving Normally in Abnormal Circumstances by Desmond Fennell (Athol Books, 2007).
- 1 2 Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions edited by Philip O'Connor, AHS, 2008.
- ↑ Coolacrease Book has Numerous Axes to Grind Archived 22 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Sunday Business Post. "Dublin Review of Books | Getting Them Out - Southern Loyalists in the War of Independence - Tom Wall". Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2009. Spring 2009. Dublin Review of Books published a response by two of the book's authors in Autumn 2009. Archived 1 August 2012 at archive.today
- ↑ See, for instance, Jeffrey Dudgeon, "He Could Tell You Things", Dublin Review of Books, "> He Could Tell You Things". Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2009. and W.J McCormack's article "Harnessing the Fire" in Books Ireland, Dec. 2004, both critical of the AHS' position on the Casement Diaries.
- ↑ Anthony Coughlan reviews the AHS' book James Connolly Re-Assessed. Archived 4 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Irish Democrat
