Battle scars all too apparent in clubhouses long after 1916

Easter Saturday, 1916.

A huge crowd has gathered at Lansdowne Road for a match between Ulster and Leinster.

This is no normal game, however. The Great War is continuing to produce slaughter on an industrial scale and the normal rugby calendar has been suspended. In its place is a series of charity matches to raise money for injured soldiers, or the dependants of dead ones. Or to send things to the Western Front to make the lives of soldiers in the trenches more bearable.