Dont think there was a âraâ back then
They should have emmigrated rather than murder imho
My great grandfather died at ypres in 1915
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The Eurozone is working as it was designed. To see Commandant Merkel and Herr Macron cozying up to each other today is a sight that should send a shudder down our collective spines. Countries, including ours, had their economies destroyed to save the big banks of Europe. Greece was decimated at the insistence of Germany and France. The plain people of those countries still exist on a type of continuation that is only barely above poverty levels. Yes, right wing populism will be a disaster but they tend to grow when citizens are sacrificed as a result of having to save the elites again and again. This country is the same except that we havenât the balls to tackle the cunts. We find it far easier to pretend that our boys sacrifice was worth it âfor small nationsâ or some horseshit like that. They won our freedom kind of nonsense. WW2 could be argued as having some sort of merit as a fight against fascism, but not the âgreat warâ. A fight between three cousins, three imperialistic inbred bastards.
And now we celebrate it.
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It was then pal. The uk was of Britain and ireland.
Oirish people went out of loyalty (to the armed forces that had subjugated the country, strangely)
Or out of poverty (so they signed up to kill other poor people?)
Either way its a bizarre pointless commemoration, co-opted by the blueshirts. Huge sign up rates in south dublin, so always gonna get the rte and establishment kid gloves
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Youâre right there but they were lots of pre Ra Ra men. IRB I assume. One of the neighbours joined. And after the civil war he ended up on the Fianna Fail side of Sinn Fein. Not sure where Iâm going with this or how itâs relevant but there it is anyway.
They were naive, easily influenced young men. Same as the other side. War is insane. If they could Google what was going on in the trenches and how what theyâre roles would actually be itâs not unreasonable to assume theyâd have stayed put.
Saw a lovely piece on YouTube the other night. An interview with a French veteran. Came face to face with his opponent. Killed him his bayonet. Kill or be killed.
They didnât join to murder. Ffs. They joined a cause and ended up fighting for it.
They were sent out over a trench and told theyd be shot if they came back
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They didnât join to murder. Ffs. They joined a cause and ended up fighting for it.
[/quote]thats a common scum fein tactic which they use when they are attempting to rewrite their version of history
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What was the cause?
Freedom apparently
Huh?by joining the opressors
Why isnt the American civil war remembered? More irish dead there than ww1.
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They remember it down in Cork.
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America have memorial Day. Itâs a national holiday.
True, when their nickname comes from the english civil war
200,000 of us went over and fought for our country in WWI 
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Is there a breakdown by county out of interest
150000 from Ulster and Kilkenny, 50000 from the rest.
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Damned if you do and damned if you donât.
All that said the furore over people wearing and not wearing poppies is ridiculous. Was supprised to see @Bandage sporting one at the weekend though.
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hijacked by the biggest cunts on both sides of the debate, very sad
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