WW1 was a war of attrition and even those Irish who volunteered caimed that they were put in the most dangerous positions when fighting
Ireland had lost so many in the famine, though starvation, disease and through the emigrations, to sacrifice so many would, as I said, have made Ireland unsustainable as a nation.
It would have been obsecen to involve Ireland, who had fought for centuries to rid itself of British rule, to force young Irishmen to fight and die fot the very Empire they were trying to free themselves from - even with the limited Home Rule concessions.
We've dealt with all this over and over again and you remained a couple up shit's creek without a paddle last time
Now you are trying to reopen the same subject - on your own again.
"The "men of the gun" "
I don't suppose you mean the Loyalists - that's who they were in the 20th century
You seem quite happy to support them: " got the shock of their lives when they found out that the North would fight to maintain their ties with the UK" yet prepared to condemn republicans who fight for civil right or whatever - almost as 'fair minded and even handed' as the way the six counties were set up as a Protestant state, I would say - how about you?
No need to ask which side you are on, is there?
This thread is bout McGuinness who did more than any other to bring the warring sides to the conference table - that's how much he had to "do with it"
Little Englander Brexit stands to knock that work back decades.
Have we finished with the 'Links with London' but than?
Jim Carroll