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