that's it exactly Stim. that said, we write what songs come to us.
Jim
I just think Pearse was an idealist - and people seem to have warmed to him..... I don't think atrocities were what he had in mind in 1916.

Its an interesting point - would we remember The Charge of the Light Brigade without Tennyson's poem?   Heroes the six hundred may have been - but any one of their families would have preferred that they stayed at home.

I would have been proud of my Dad if he had dies fighting for his country - but it would have been a piss poor alternative to him living til he was 87.