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The Irish experience between the years of 1914 and 1918 has to be understood within the joint context of World War I and the 1916 Rising. These two events served to polarize opinions throughout the island, causing differences in response and commemoration of both events. The propaganda used by the British government to recruit Irishmen into their ranks often played on these differences.
Irish Victoria Cross winners served to grease the cogs of this propaganda machine further. Receiving the highest award in the British Army was seen by many Nationalist Irishmen as being loyal to the King, while simultaneously celebrated by Unionists. This divide continues today between Northern and Southern Ireland in the remembrance and commemorations to these brave men
Yet the outdated tactics utilized on the Western Front of World War I cost the Allied war effort thousands of lives that many at home felt were lost fruitlessly. Therefore, intrinsic to the understanding of this turning point in sentiment are the tactics used both on the Western Front and in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.
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