Interesting piece in the Examiner about the Crimean War and its aftermath.
“Thirty-thousand Irish men lost their lives in the Crimean War (1853-1856) between Britain and Russia….
in the parishes of Whitegate, Aghada and Farsid, Co Cork, one-third of the male population died in the Crimean War…
The “flashpoints” created by imperial ambitions which erupted so spectacularly during the First World War have not gone away.
As the Crimea crisis deepens, we must remember that we have been here before. Four world powers with imperial ambitions — France, Britain, Russia and Turkey — believed God was on their side and their side only, For which blind folly a third of the men in Whitegate, Aghada and Farsid paid the ultimate price.”
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/victoria-white/we-already-paid-the-ultimate-price-in-crimea-we-must-not-do-so-again-260197.html