252:'s service was neither military (merchant seaman) nor notable (although he would trot it out in arguments with certain Unionists), but in later life, he was notable. If it turned out that a significant wartime technological advance was made by a Irish civilian, that would, IMO, qualify. Born elsewhere of Irish parents is not that tenuous, for its time, since Irish soldiers were stationed elsewhere in Britain or abroad, in the same way as other British servicemen, without dilution of their Irishness. I doubt that this list will contain "thousands", by its nature.
321:. The list also allows those not born in Ireland, but born of Irish parents. That opens the door to untold thousands of Irish-Americans. Admittedly, not all of them are notable, but the list is still pretty wide open. If you can narrow the list to those Irish nationals who specifically sought out service with a foreign military in order to serve the cause of the war, you might be able to make a point, but the list as it is defined now seems somewhat pointless.
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was highly significant in the Med campaign and he had important public service before he died. Are there really hundreds of others like this? BTW, don't knock the
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I note that the "thousands" have reduced to "hundreds"! It depends on the criteria for this list; IMO, Dill, Fegen, Cunningham, Fitt & VC holders are all worthy of note. Torrens-Spence is marginal, IMO, although his part in the crippling of the
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Indiscriminate list. This is one of those "List of people of nationality X in time period Y" lists, where X is a large nation, and Y is a global event. Literally millions of people qualify, of whom thousands would pass our criteria for notability.
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