Why honour the Irish who fought for the British?

DAN BUCKLEY, writing of distant relative David Lord (Irish Examiner, May 9) bemoans the fact that such brave recipients of the Victoria Cross are not honoured with monuments in Ireland.

I agree that bravery and selfless courage are well worth acknowledging. However, the case for David Lord being commemorated as Irish is slender, resting as it does on his birth in Cork. His boyhood was spent in Wales and his military service was in the army of another country.

It seems a reversal of the situation some years ago when any successful Irish person was claimed by the British media as a "British" singer, pop group, writer, etc.