![]() By 1914, the British Army numbered 247,000 troops, of whom 20,000 were Irish with a further 145,000 ex-regular reserves.30,000 of which were Irish meaning that in 1914, Irishmen made up twelve percent of the total British Army.Approximately 50,000 Irish soldiers died in the First World War. ![]() The number then gradually reduced until by the Boer War, twenty percent of Britain's fighting men were Irish. By the 1860s, the number peaked at sixty percent claiming to be either Irish-born or of Irish descent. By 1831, forty percent of the British Army was Irish. This figure rose steadily over the following decades. This however may occlude the reality that during the Peninsular War against Napoleon, thirty percent of Wellington's army had been Irish. Much of this was grounded in the hostility felt by the largely Catholic poor for the Anglo-Irish gentry, which was mainly Anglican. There is a long tradition of anti-British sentiment, specifically anti-English sentiment since the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland and often more specifically Anglophobia, within Irish nationalism. "An Gorta Mór, Britain's genocide by starvation, Ireland's holocaust 1845–1849, over 1,500,000 deaths". Parts of the Iranian media campaigned against the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran in August 2015, referring to Britain as an " old fox " – a term popularised by the Pakistani writer Seyyed Ahmad Adib Pishavari (born Peshawar 1844, died Tehran 1930) – and accusing Britain of having provoked protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. ![]() On 29 November 2011, Iranian students in Tehran stormed the British embassy, ransacked offices, smashed windows, shouted "Death to England" and burned the British flag. Politicians reportedly shouted "Death to Britain". In November 2011 the Iranian parliament voted to downgrade relations with the UK after British sanctions were imposed on Iran due to its nuclear programme. His remarks drew criticism from Simon Gass, the British ambassador to Iran, and also from the media in Britain. On Monday 9 August 2010, the senior Iranian minister and Iran's first vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi declared that the British people were "stupid" and "not human". As a result, British influence was widely known to have been behind the overthrow of the Qajar dynasty in the 1920s, the subsequent rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the successful coup d'état overthrowing prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953. In the first half of the 20th century, the British Empire exerted political influence over Iran (Persia) in order to control the profits from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. In July 2009, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Britain "worse than America" for its alleged interference in Iran's post-election affairs. If Gray had had to write his Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges.See also: Iran–United Kingdom relations and old foxĪnti-British sentiment, sometimes described as Anglophobia, has been described as "deeply entrenched in Iranian culture", and reported to be increasingly prevalent in Iran.The lewd forefathers of the village sleep. The Lass o' the Lab - A Modern Folksong.Now there once was a lass, and a very pretty lass,.Ballade of Soporific Absorption (1931).And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot -īut ' I'm not so think as you drunk I am.Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p.The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.As quoted in The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p.God said, Let Newton be! - and all was light. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: "In continuation of Pope on Newton" from Poems (1926) Squire is here extending upon the famous statement of Alexander Pope:.Let Einstein be," restored the status quo. It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho.On the outbreak of the First World War, from Epigrams (1916)." Good God!" said God, " I've got my work cut out!" God heard the embattled nations sing and shout.Sir John Collings Squire ( 2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. " Good God!" said God, "I've got my work cut out!" God this, God that, and God the other thing – "Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!" God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
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