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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’).

Democratic credentials of the 1916 leaders

Tue, 27 Dec, 2005 - 00:00

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:

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