Yet again, the summer school in Glenties, which bears the name of Patrick MacGill, has ignored both the writer and his participation in World War 1. That this should be the case in the war’s centenary year is a glaring omission.

A new visitor centre has just opened in Flanders commemorating the 30,000 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War.

IN a rural French lane under a British flag, the General looked over the assembled war veterans.