The Irish poet Francis Ledwidge was an Irish nationalist and a British soldier who died fighting against the Kaiser, Willhelm II, at Ypres in the battle of Passchendale in 1917
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There was a day when myths were the stuff of song, when they were spoken of by poets and carved in stone. Today they are printed on plastic wrappers to be thrown away as litter.
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