A whole generation written out of our history

IT IS time to change our thinking in relation to the Great War. It was not a unionist war, the Somme was not a unionist battle.

Mon, 17 Nov, 2003 - 00:00

Irishmen, unionist and nationalist, Catholic, Protestant and dissenter, spilled their blood in the Allied cause, the Irish cause, the British cause and a myriad of other causes. Whatever the cause, they fought for you and me.

The unionists seem to remember the 36th (Ulster) Division only. The poppy is a symbol of remembrance, the charitable donations from which go to disabled veterans and those who have fallen on hard times.

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