Let’s not forget Gallipoli all over again

The events of the 1916 Rising and the conflict in Turkey a year earlier are closely entwined

President Michael D Higgins meets Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan last Friday at a service to commemorate Gallipoli. Also pictured are Britain's Princes Charles and Harry Picture: Fennells

The day after Pádraig Pearse’s troops marched through Dublin to seize the GPO in 1916, 2,000 New Zealander and Australian troops marched through London.

They were marking the first anniversary of the launch of the failed Gallipoli campaign a year earlier. April 25, 1916 was the first Anzac Day (‘Anzac’, of course, standing for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps).

There was no Anzac Day in Dublin. Yet as many Irish had been ...