Letter: Referendums, North and South, for Ireland
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Liam Dunne
Sir: Your article "Peace formula to exclude Sinn Fein" (21 February) states that John Hume's referendum proposal "would be the first cross- border plebiscite on the island since 1918". This is not so. The first post-1918 all-Ireland plebiscite was the European Parliament election of 1979.
Yours sincerely,
Liam Dunne
London, SW18
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