‘And the band played Waltzing Matilda’

No doubt we will be hearing a lot of Eric Bogle’s song—perhaps the greatest anti-war song ever written—over the next few weeks and months as we mark the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in which over 130,000 died, including c. 5,000 Irishmen. What seemed like a strategic masterstroke—that would knock out one of the ... Read more

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