Posted on Oct 17, 2015
Do You Know About The Irish Role In The Battle Of Gallipoli?
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We will be remembering the BC grads who died in WWI & served in the "Fighting 69th" Regiment..or as we Boston Irish called it "The Fighting Irish" Regiment..with Wild Bill, Fr Duffy & the "Iron Major" who was a football coach at BC after he hung up his uniform...
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I am surprised to learn that the Irish fought at Gallipoli. Indeed, I am doubtful. If the Irish had been there I would expect the battle to have turned out much differently. Unless, of course, they were fighting for the Turks which would explain a lot. Remember why God invented whiskey? So the Irish wouldn't rule the world.
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Sgt Tom Cunnally
We are also great poets in addition to being great fighter here's one from WWI by an Irish Soldier written at Gallipoli:
Where Aegean cliffs with bristling menace front
The treacherous splendour of that isley sea,
Lighted by Troy’s last shadow; where the first
Hero kept watch and the last Mystery
Shook with dark thunder. Hark! The battle brunt!
A nation speaks, old Silences are burst.
‘Tis not for lust of glory, no new throne
This thunder and this lightning of our power
Wakens up frantic echoes, not for these
Our Cross with England’s mingle, to be blown
At Mammon’s threshold. We but war when war
Serves Liberty and Keeps a world at peace.
Who said that such an emprise could be vain?
Were they not one with Christ, who fought and died?
Let Ireland weep: but not for sorrow, weep
That by her sons a land is sanctified,
For Christ arisen, and angels once again
Come back, like exile birds, and watch their sleep.
Where Aegean cliffs with bristling menace front
The treacherous splendour of that isley sea,
Lighted by Troy’s last shadow; where the first
Hero kept watch and the last Mystery
Shook with dark thunder. Hark! The battle brunt!
A nation speaks, old Silences are burst.
‘Tis not for lust of glory, no new throne
This thunder and this lightning of our power
Wakens up frantic echoes, not for these
Our Cross with England’s mingle, to be blown
At Mammon’s threshold. We but war when war
Serves Liberty and Keeps a world at peace.
Who said that such an emprise could be vain?
Were they not one with Christ, who fought and died?
Let Ireland weep: but not for sorrow, weep
That by her sons a land is sanctified,
For Christ arisen, and angels once again
Come back, like exile birds, and watch their sleep.
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Sgt Tom Cunnally The Gallipoli campaign was the same year as the Rising 1916 Bhoyo. The Brits always used colonials and the Celtic troops as cannon fodder. Tioch faidh ar la
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