The truth about Ireland’s First World War soldiers

British ex-servicemen would have been enthusiastic participants in next year’s commemoration of the 1916 Rising, writes Paul Taylor

NEXT year, we commemorate the centenary of perhaps the definitive episode in Irish history, the Easter Rising.

The 13 rebels executed by the British after the Rising are remembered — the thousands who died whilst serving in the British army were for many years forgotten in a sort of national amnesia.