International scholars gather at University College Cork this week for a public conference marking the centenary of the US Navy’s First World War deployment to Ireland.
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19 First World War soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium
Nineteen soldiers of the British Army who fell on the battlefields of Flanders have been laid to rest at New Irish Farm CWGC cemetery near Ypres.
Continue readingFull list of beaches named for WW1 ‘Pages of the Sea’ commemoration
More than 30 beaches across the UK and Republic of Ireland will be hosting Danny Boyle’s 14-18 NOW Armistice Centenary event, remembering those who left to serve in the First World War.
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