> Is this true? <
Many years ago I read a history of WW1. And that story (post #10) was in it. I might not have the wording exactly right, but I do remember the gist of it.
Of course the author might have taken a rumor for a fact. So you never can be sure.
coming from an Irish family myself...I know how stories take a life of their own, and become exponentially inflated as time goes on....the exaggeration is always in favor of either:
1) the Story Teller
2) The Irish as a whole
3) Both 1 and 2