Obsession with Dudley Edwards Too much of this article is concerned with rebutting Dudley Edwards which suggests that it is guarded protected and written by particularly obscure and unrepresentative Republicans I suggest the article takes a more informative tone and rejects the advocacy it currently pursues Furthermore too much is made of Dudley Edward s Unionism her biography was welcomed across the spectrum and was pioneering in its novelty and the various questions it asked Desmond Ryan a student and admirer of Pearse said some very similar things a generation before so please have some perspective 86 40 207 29