The Irish broadcaster, RTE, and organisers of the Hay literary festival in Kells are to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings with a programme of talks, music and poetry from April 24-26th 2015.
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Gallipoli Centenary draws record Anzac Day crowds
Tributes have been paid in Turkey and around the world to all those who fought in the Gallipoli campaign 100 years ago.
Continue readingGallipoli Centenary: Remembrance at Edinburgh Castle, April 25
The service charity, Legion Scotland, hosts commemorations at Edinburgh Castle on April 25th 2015 marking the 100th anniversary of the Allied landings at Gallipoli.
Continue readingIsaac Rosenberg statue appeal fundraising event
On Sunday 26 April, the Jewish East End Celebration Society is hosting an event to fund-raise for the planned statue in memory of the war poet Isaac Rosenberg.
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Lusitania Centenary: Historic disaster photos on show in Cobh, Ireland
More than 60 photographs capturing the aftermath of the Lusitania disaster are displayed in the Irish port of Cobh, as it prepares for commemorations next week marking the centenary of the British liner’s sinking by a German submarine.
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America to commemorate sinking of Lusitania in New York and Washington
The World War One Centennial Commission (the main US official body for commemorating the First World War), will be hosting two events to mark the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th 1915.
Continue readingEnglish village of Hoby holds First World War commemorative events
The Hoby and District Local History Society is organised a variety of commemorative events to honour local contributions to the First World War.
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London lecture to examine lessons of 1918 flu pandemic
The influenza pandemic which spread across the world with devastating results in the final months of the Great War will be discussed at a lecture in London on May 13th 2015.
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Lusitania Centenary: Irish lifeboat crew re-enacts 1915 rescue call
A veteran lifeboat has been rowed to the wreck site of the Lusitania in tribute to those who went to the aid of the torpedoed liner’s victims on May 7th 1915.
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Lusitania relatives gather on Irish coast to mark centenary
Thousands of people are expected to take part in Lusitania centenary events on Ireland’s Cork coast today (May 7th 2015), many of them descendants of the torpedoed liner’s passengers and crew.
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