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Commemorate the courage of soldiers and the insight of poets

PAT MULDOWNEY (Irish Examiner, March 8) raises troubling questions in relation to the Somme but also to Easter 1916.

Commemorate the courage of soldiers and the insight of poets

Mon, 13 Mar, 2006 - 00:00

The events of 1916 are too important for us to ignore and it is right on this 90th anniversary that we seek to confront them.

In his poem, The General (1917) Siegfried Sassoon, who won the Military Cross in 1916, writes:

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