Britain Declares War on Germany 1914

#OnThisDay 1914 Britain declared war on Germany after they invaded Belgium the day previous, plunging Europe & indeed the world into war. Over the course of the First World War, around 205,000 Irishmen would fight & about 40,000 men from Ireland would die.

MIchael O'Leary VC

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