Let’s honour Irish war dead in our own way

RETIRED Irish Army captain Donal Buckley (Irish Examiner letters, November 17) takes us to task for “intentionally and maliciously writing out of history a generation of our own people that fought and died for us“.

Let’s honour Irish war dead in our own way

There was hardly a family in Ireland left untouched by the enormous tragedy of young lives lost during the Great War, so it is entirely proper, and perhaps overdue, that public ceremonies be held to commemorate those who never returned.

What is not acceptable, however, is the effort at conferring a new respectability upon the British army under the guise of honouring the war dead.

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