As outbreak of WWI is remembered, here’s a recruiting poster from our collection. More here: http://t.co/v6mGhrX4vs pic.twitter.com/bgjDrG7078
— Nat Library Ireland (@NLIreland) August 5, 2014
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Everything. As It Happens.
After you harp lady.
Obviously trying to recruit Leprechauns
Anyone know the tune? Seems to start off similarly to Auld Lang Syne, but I’m not great on reading music.
Thought it was Def Leppard’s Gods of War myself.
I think the call might be from Ireland, Ireland’s call.
War by Edwin Starr? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWmlRNfLck
War Pigs by Black Sabbath?
F**k The Peace Process by John Bruton?
Oddly if you whistle it, it doesn’t sound a million miles away from the Last Post.
49,000 Irish were killed in WW1.
No, it’s accepted that figure is way over the top. It relates to men killed in Irish battalions. Still doesn’t get away to the fact they were all conned into fighting for an army that saw them as cannon fodder and nothing else.
Wasn’t just the irish that were seen that way, most battalions were treated that way. It was the accepted way to fight a war at the time.
No, it’s accepted that figure is way over the top
By who may I ask?
All the reseaech I have seen on this indicates that the figure is much hiugher nearer to the 100000 mark as the Irish soldier serving in British (and Canadian) batallians were often counted as losses for the armies of that country rather than being counted as an Irishman.
Source: The book Irishmen or English Soldiers
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Irishmen_Or_English_Soldiers.html
Peter Karsten’s research paper, “Irish Soldiers in the British Army, 1792-1922
http://jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/1/31.full.pdf+html