1916 leaders don’t need British declaration of innocence

Myles Duffy’s statement that (Irish Examiner, Letters, April 14) Britain should ‘exonerate’ the executed of 1916 is incorrect. 

The pardons for Shot at Dawn were conditional, and signed into law in November 2006, not September; 306 were listed as pardoned, not 300, and the offence of mutiny was excluded. Of more concern, is Mr Duffy’s appeal for a declaration of moral innocence for the executed 1916 leaders, within the context of the 2016 commemorations. This is beyond my comprehension. The 1916 men require no declaration of innocence from the British.

Peter Mulvany