NIALL GINTY (Letters, November 19) and Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, November 11) both commented on my letter to you (November 9).

DR Pat Muldowney’s letter (October 29) on RTÉ’s Hidden History programme (October 23) was valuable at the time and has become of even greater importance subsequently.

THE general election revealed a surprising historical connection with the War of Independence.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese will attend a major conference in Cork at the weekend to mark the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

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’).

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

I THINK that it is, perhaps, time to adopt a more intelligent approach to the problem of the Orange Order than that advocated by Brian P Murphy and Rev David Armstrong.