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The Christmas Truce, 1914 – An Irish Perspective
At 11pm on Christmas Eve, a British sentry in the trenches near Picantin rubbed his eyes and stared out across the narrow No-Man’s Land to the German trenches. Sure enough, clusters of lanterns were rising up all along the German parapets. By the time word of this curious lightshow had spread down the line to […]