Democratic credentials of the 1916 leaders

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’).

In that letter I suggested that the democratic credentials of those responsible for the Easter Rising of 1916 should be judged in the context of the events of that time.

I then asked Mr Bury to respond to certain questions: