We should not sanitise the Great War but recognise the truth

Your November 8 editorial speaks of the “honourable contribution” that Britain’s Great War Irish soldiers made to the world, and of the “dishonesty” of the Irish view of that war which, you say, caused us to “dishonour” the memory of those Irish soldiers.

It is right that we should remember this disgusting and atrocious war whose consequences still persist, having produced not a mere four years of carnage but a whole century of it.

We should remember the whole truth, not some selective, sanitised, partial version which promotes such “honourable contributions” in our own era. The outcome would probably have been the same if all Irish volunteer soldiers had kept out of it.