> Churchill displayed in his long career a similarly imperial insouciance toward Ireland, sending countless young Irishmen to their deaths in a catastrophic mil

> Churchill displayed in his long career a similarly imperial insouciance toward Ireland, sending countless young Irishmen to their deaths in a catastrophic military fiasco at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I and unleashing brutal paramilitaries against Irish nationalists in 1920. I was unaware of the Irish serving at Gallipoli so I looked it up[0] and apparently 15,000 served with 3,000 fatalities - a similar number to New Zealanders. Interestingly there never was conscription in Ireland - it was planned later in the war but never implemented due to the crisis it created[1]. [0] https://www.independent.ie/life/world-war-1/sea-at-gallipoli-ran-red-with-irish-blood-30270528.html https://www.independent.ie/life/world-war-1/sea-at-gallipoli... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1918