The Irish connection is interesting. Whilst it wasn't common to build a war memorial where the maypole used to be, as per many UK towns and villages, the many Irish who joined up at the early period and fell do tend to have plaques in churches, town halls etc.

Towards the end of the "Great War" Ireland had more pressing issues at home to deal with.

The songs of the period, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Canadian, USian, French, German, Turkish, Italian..., written at the time, tend to be as cutting and dismissive of the military leadership as those written much later. It's important to ensure revisionists aren't allowed to wallow in their perverse worship of military blunder.