Jim,
Why not give s your evidence that the Irish are all gullible and stupid and have all been misled over their history - I've asked you often enough.
I do not believe they are.
Or your evidence that all the destruction was done by rifle fire?
it was not.
Or maybe how Britain would never have introduced compulsory call-up
It never happened. Plenty of Irish volunteers. Conscription not needed.
Or that Home Rule was a done deal?
Done that. Here it is again.
In 1914 after the third reading, the Home Rule Bill was passed by the Commons on 25 May 1914 by a majority of 77. Having been defeated a third time in the Lords, the Government used the provisions of the Parliament Act to override the Lords and send it for Royal Assent.
That makes it a done deal in1914. But for the Germans invading Belgium it would have been enacted at once.