NEXT weekend marks the 90th anniversary of the 1918 general election, the last British election in which the people of the 26 Counties participated.

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’).