Fighting for the empire and for Home Rule

I AGREE with some of your editorial comment (Irish Examiner, June 27) concerning the Battle of the Somme, but feel it missed one very important point.

Sat, 07 Jan, 2006 - 00:00

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Those who fought in 1916 and in the War of Independence were fighting for their own country in a just cause.

They also, unfortunately, had little choice but to use force, whatever the revisionists say.

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