Irish in Gallipol

[cathal1972]

Folks, two interesting and unrelated pieces in Saturday's Irish Times about the Irish in Gallipoli

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/...4269035376.html

and

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinio...4269032305.html

regards,

Cathal.

[corisande]

Interesting the revival of interest in WW! in Ireland today

The misconception seems to be universally held that Gallipoli was purely "Australian", among Australians, English and Irish.

We have some Australian guests at the moment, and I have print those articles out for discussion over breakfast :=)

[Heid the Ba]

The misconception seems to be universally held that Gallipoli was purely "Australian", among Australians, English and Irish.

And a misconception that English and British are synonyms.

[Krithia]

I like this article, looks like Bean and the Aussies even then were trying to make it purely an Australian affair!

[michaeldr]

The Australian War Memorial’s head of military history, Ashley Ekins, has defended Bean’s work and said he was not trying to mislead in how he edited the footage. “He was trying to give a narrative to an Australian audience and to keep it simple, because people had to read these titles in a silent movie cinema,” said Ekins.

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