Saturday, 28 July 2007

Careful Understatement


Here's a monument

"Dedicated to the memory of the Officers and men
of the Third Battalion Dublin Brigade

Who Died For Ireland in 1918 and Since."

I assumed this was about expeditionary duty in the Great War and since, but I realize now that it may be relating to more local matters.

Regardless, there's a certain sort of poetic understatement in Irish expression that just destroys me. It reads, below,

"May They All Be On God's Right Hand."

1 comment:

Unknown said...

a word of caution may be in order-The republic of Ireland did not participate in WW2.Northern Ireland did but Eire was completely neutral. Dad