Bogle's song was not written by someone sitting in their garden shed thinking "Right, let's write an anti war song" I have heard him say that he wrote it following a visit to a cemetery in Northern France. It was an emotional response to something he saw and which gave him pause for thought. It does not matter whether most war graves have crosses or not I have no reason to doubt the truth of what he said he saw.

Without wishing to teach Granny about egg sucking there are clearly people unaware of two other points he used to make in introducing this song. 1) The title: What struck him was the age of the fallen; they were only boys, hence "still no man's land" The term no man's land is multi layered, resonant.   2) It was never intended as an Irish song. The pipes playing the Scottish lament Floo'ers o' the Forest is redolent of Scottish or expat Scottish troops.

Lastly if you want to know if this is a good song then have a look round a room of ordinary people when it is being sung even half well. Not people whose main interest is how the singer compares to their own mastery but people touched by a voice they can hear reminding them of something too easily and too often forgotten