Forgotten Irish war dead honoured by queen’s visit
Like the men whose lives it commemorates, the Irish National War Memorial Garden in Islandbridge was relatively unknown to the greater public before the visit of Queen Elizabeth on the second day of her historic State visit to Ireland.
However, all that changed utterly yesterday with the queen’s decision to include a tour of the beautiful, sedate garden on her itinerary in order to pay tribute to those who had died while fighting for Crown forces between 1914 and 1918.
