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The Christmas Truce, 1914 – An Irish Perspective

The Christmas Truce of 1914 has become one of the most iconic events of the war, a moment when British and German soldiers sang carols, exchanged cigarettes and met in the killing fields of No Man’s Land for informal kickabouts with a football on Christmas Day.