I do Allan, but not often because it's a singaround killer. Also No Mans Land, but for the same reason I started this thread prefer a 2 verse version of W.McBrides reply.
Kevin Mac., wise words and relevant personal perspective as ever. You grudgingly accept the Kaiser's regime was more loathsome than even the British. Also his armies were sweeping East and West across Europe while ours were not. Because Britain was not itself a Utopia, was it not right for them to try to halt his conquests? And if young Irishmen felt the same moral outrage and rushed to help, why are they fighting for the wrong country and cause? Was home rule the only cause they should ever espouse? As has been said , it was not even a very popular cause in Ireland before the 1916 executions.
In the same way your father saw it as a separate issue to the Nationalism debate when he joined the British army to fight Hitler. Did anyone ever tell him he was fighting the wrong country and cause? What would he have said?