Irish misled into war against Central Powers

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.

I do not find them at all complex. Even if they were, surely we should have unravelled them in the course of the nearly 100 years that have passed since these events occurred?

Hundreds of thousands of Irishmen were misled into fighting in a war against states and peoples they had no reason to fight.