“Twas better to die beneath an Irish sky – than at Suvla or Sud el Bar.” (World War One, A War To End All Wars, The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month)
“Twas better to die beneath an Irish sky – than at Suvla or Sud el Bar.” (World War One, A War To End All Wars, The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month)
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I heard the ira organised a gaol rescue for the same day. Supposedly the authorities had problems organising search parties to look for the escapee, because so many soldiers were celebrating and drunk.
/r/ireland is too busy wanking it to British soldiers right now.
Our patriot dead, who have died for this country and are widely admired on the island of Ireland, ought to take second place to the West Brit Poppy Brigade, obviously.
My grandas da and five uncles went to France in ww1 only one uncle came back he died in bed with a brass nail in the 60s after forgetting his heart med’s 🤣 good man uncle wiper
“Oh, had they died by Pearse’s side or fought with Cathal Brugha. Their graves we’d keep where the Fenians sleep, ‘neath the shroud of the foggy dew.”
Or to further the chances of putting food in their childrens bellies.
A lot of Irish who joined the british army didnt do so out of political leaning.
My Grandmothers uncle. France.
All those young men, of all nationalities, died for the passing fancies and trivial squabbles of a tiny group of inbred cousin fuckers. Poppy season has become a grotesque display of propaganda to ensure future generations might be fed into the same grinder one day. If we want to celebrate the young Irish people who sacrificed themselves in both world wars, we need our own symbol. They deserve it.
The class that despised him died at a far higher rate than Tommy.
I certainly admire the individual heroism of the people involved but the war itself was unjust, imperialistic and a criminal waste of otherwise meaningful lives.
Poppy season has certainly grown legs over the past decade and is quickly turning into the American shows of “thanks” to veterans where you’re obliged to do so at risk of being labelled unpatriotic.
However I do find the Irish leaning, which is also going stronger of late, of attempting to smear and generalise all Irishmen who took up arms as being somehow “less than” or not worthy of remembrance as being equally if not more so cringeworthy.
The majority of these men didn’t go to war for a flag, they went to war because the meat grinder meant a guaranteed wage and food for their impoverished family. Don’t forget that the Ireland of those days had nothing, things were bleak and you had to fend for yourself and your family, their was no realistic social net to fall back on in Winter if your harvest wasn’t good and you had no animals to slaughter.
These men did fight for something worth while and made sacrifices that people today would do well to stop and consider if they would have done the same or not if they were in their shoes before they judge them.
This 100%.
Those Irish men were fed a lie to fight in a pointless war. The whole “died so small nations may be free” line is total fucking joke, the British empire was not just actively putting down independence movements here in Ireland but all over the world. 11/11 should be a day when the elite upper class of Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia should all hang their heads in shame for starting that pointless fucking war. A war where millions died for nothing and set the stage for every major conflict since.