1: "The deaths of those people will be commemorated by those who loved them."
2: "It will be keenly regretted by all concerned in causing them."
3: "What point is served by dredging it up here other than to renew the Irish hatred of the British?"

1: And by all fair-minded people across the world....except you, obviously.
2: What makes you say that?
3: Was that the point being served?

"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

Spoken like a true Brit.

Why don't you start a thread commemorating all those other anniversaries, yourself?

B.