Brendan Clifford and Jack Lane, members of both the AHS and British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), grew up in the Aubane area of north Cork.
[1] The Society has been highly critical of Peter Hart, whom it accuses of falsifying interview material,[2] with denunciations of Roy Foster, Brian Hanley, Paul Bew, and Henry Patterson.
The AHS regularly attacks Hubert Butler (whom it accuses of being a quasi-racist defender of Protestant Ascendancy) and Elizabeth Bowen, whom it claims acted as a British spy in Ireland during the Second World War and hence lacking any Irish identity.
[3] AHS has worked with some writers who might be seen as representing a more traditional republican perspective, including Desmond Fennell, Brian P. Murphy osb, Eoin Neeson and Meda Ryan.
[4] AHS has also denied that the killing of two young Cooneyite Protestant farmers at Coolacrease, Co. Offaly in 1921 was sectarian (it claims[5] they were properly executed for attacking the forces of the legitimate, democratically elected (Dáil) government).