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THE SOMME : For God and country.
(From Irish Independent)
The manufacture of consent for World War I among the British and Irish people was achieved by a judicious mixof jingoistic propaganda, pleas to religious sentiment and outright invention
Long before he became scheming Bob Charles inFair City, actor Bryan Murray played the decent and honourable Fitz inStrumpet City.
RTE's superb 1980 production of James Plunkett's novel dramatised the notorious Dublin lock-out of 1913 when the city's employers crushed an attempt by workers to unionise. In the closing shot of the series Fitz, a devout Southern Catholic, pulls on a British Army uniform and sails forebodingly into the unknown to battle the Hun in the 'war to end all wars'.
Fitz hasn't enlisted from any love of King and neighbouring country - he's done it to feed his family. He has no alternative. Jobs are already scarce in a city of brutal inequality, and no employer will touch him because of his union activism in the lock-out.
In the spring of 1916, shortly before the Battle of the Somme, theIrish Independent reported that 100,000 Irishmen had signed up for the British Army since the outbreak of war in 1914. The majority of these, some 55,000, were Catholics.
At the start of the war the island's Catholic nationalist majority had already been guaranteed Home Rule ...
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