Irish politicians to be invited to Belfast for Battle of the Somme and Armistice Day ceremonies

In late May of 1989, I happened to be vacationing in Dublin and while listening to a Befast radio station, I heard a survivor of the Ulster Division being interviewed. He told of how gallantly his fellow Ulsterman fought the Germans at the Somme, advanced and left both their flanks dangerously exposed because the British units on either flank didn't advance along with the Ulstermen. Then he said: "If Redmond's men had beeen on our flanks, we would have held on the the ground that we gained". Redmond's men were mostly Irish Catholics who also fought for G.B. when Ireland was still a single political entity - under British rule. The Ulster veteran of the Somme voiced his displeasure with the British forces of his flanks, but spoke favorably of his fellow Irishmen who had been organized by John Redmont, the leader of the Irish Parliamentery Party who tried to use diplomatic means in his quest for the independence of the Irish nation. independence for

If the thousands of Redmonite Irish National(?) Volunteers who were slaughtered as cannon fodder by the British Empire in the Abrahamic aberration that was WWI had stayed and fought with Pearse and Connolly, we would have had full Irish freedom almost a century ago. Instead of fighting for the right of small nations to exist when their own wasn't afforded the same privilege. "At the going down of the sun and at its coming up. We shall remember them." (Funny. I though the sun never set on the British Empire?) But will we remember the reasons for the war that didn't end all wars, as Caoimhin1937 rightly points out. Wreckless military misadventurism by Europes egotistical monarchs, who now consititute the macro empire trading as the EU. The best honour for the denationalised volunteers of 1914-1916-1918 would be a reunited Ireland, instead of the repitition compulsion of poppy wreath laying at countless cenotaphs around the world.

Thank the Catholic Mothers of Northern Ireland. They did what IRA bomb couldn't. Why are the Protestants being so nice? Population. Those Catholic Mother keep producing. Could being Pro-life be causing this? Abortion destroys cultures. Look at America, and the UK.

After the Somme came the Treaty of Versaille. After the Treaty of Versaille came the Nazis. After that the Nazis were defeated on the Eastern front. After that came the Korean war. After that came Vietnam war. After that came the Iraqi war. After that came the Afghanistan war. After that came Frau Merkel. After that we lost our sovereignty again.