Foggy view of our own history

I WISH to congratulate the Irish Examiner for airing all the views of various correspondents to the letters page on the Gallipoli issue.

It is a welcome development that awareness has been created about the Great War on Turkey and Ireland’s part in it. Dr Gerald Morgan letter headlined ‘Let’s honour Great War dead as our own’ (May 3) comes from a perspective similar to that of a previous writer in urging equal status for all commemorations. I think the nub of the issue contested can be summed up with reference to the song, The Foggy Dew.

In that song there is a line about Gallipoli which says: “Twas better to die neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud el bar”.