MAY I congratulate Mr Robin Bury of the Reform Movement for his non-reply (‘Pearse putsch in 1916 was against wishes of vast majority,’ Irish Examiner letters December 12) to my earlier letter of November 28 (‘Pearse the rebel was once a democrat who had been betrayed’).

I WELCOME the important letter by Dr Brian Murphy OSB on the undemocratic opposition to Home Rule in 1910-1914 and afterwards (Irish Examiner, November 28).

ROBIN BURY of the Reform Movement states (Irish Examiner November 8) that “1916 was not mandated.”