ON Tuesday of last week in City Hall, Cork, I attended the launch of the book ‘A Great Sacrifice – Cork Servicemen who Died in the Great War’.

IN THEIR letters (October 20) on the upcoming commemoration in Cork of the Irish soldiers who died in the First World War, Jack Lane and Tom Cooper infer or suggest outright that any such event would be an endorsement of the post-war military operations of the British army and security forces, specifically the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries.

YOU reported (October 10) how Cork’s Lord Mayor Brian Bermingham announced details of a concert in City Hall on November 8 “to honour the memories of the estimated 2,600 Corkmen who died in the First World War. Patrons have been invited to attend in period dress and compere Michael Twomey will conduct proceedings in the style of Leonard Sachs who hosted The Good Old Days”.

IN his recent letter on World War I, headlined ‘Emotional return to the killing fields’, Maurice O’Connell says the issues surrounding the involvement of so many Irishmen from the nationalist tradition (and the impact on their families) are extremely complex.