Here are more Centenary News photos of the remembrance events in Cobh on May 7th 2015 – 100 years after the Lusitania was sunk off the Irish coast.
Irish naval guard-of-honour at the Lusitania monument
President Michael D. Higgins inspects the guard-of-honour at the start of the commemorations.
The Irish President’s wreath, and those laid by representatives of Britain, Germany, the United States & Cunard at the Lusitania monument.
Crowds listening to President Higgins’ speech on the promenade, with the Cunard liner Queen Victoria docked in the background.
Guard-of-honour at the Lusitania monument, looking towards Cobh harbour and the former Cunard wharf.
Haylee Cole, from Sydney, lays a wreath on behalf of her family at the memorial. Haylee’s great grandmother, Gertrude Adams survived the disaster. But Gertrude’s two-year-old daughter, Joan, died (Photo: Haylee Cole)
The Lusitania centenary commemorations close with an illumuninated flotilla of small boats sailing through Cobh harbour