Irish Examiner view: Book of the dead
Taoiseach Micheál Martin during the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen.
It was fitting that Armistice Day, November 11, marked the digital launch of the mighty piece of research by historian Tom Burnell to catalogue a comprehensive record of those Irish people who fell in the Great War of 1914-18, a sacrifice commemorated in some locations as Remembrance Sunday yesterday.
Irelandsgreatwardead.ie is the online database of Mr Burnell’s 2017 15-volume magnum opus which identified 29,450 people who lost their lives in that “war to end wars” as the phrasemakers of the day defined it.
