 Kettle was angered by actions of the Revolutionary faction that had staged the failed revolt, feeling that they were marring Constitutional Nationalism's long worked for strategy of the rebirth of a sovereign Irish state finding its place amidst the nations in a civilized fashion, with good spirit amidst its neighbours of the British Isles.It was as an Irish soldier in a war in the defence of European civilisation that he entered the war.He was deeply steeped in Europe's cultures.