There will be two events of major significance this week.

 

It’s not often a man folds a tent this quickly.

Today marks the last time we can remember the 1918 World War I armistice within a century of its realisation. 

JUST as the guns along the Western Front fell silent 98 years ago yesterday, their work set aside for just a short while, the Canadian poet, musician, and artist Leonard Cohen also fell silent on Armistice Day, almost a century later.

Four Irish soldiers who died in the First World War have been honoured today by newly-unveiled plaques during Armistice Day commemorations in Dublin.

French President Francois Hollande has paid his respects to the fallen of the First World War on Paris’ Champs Elysees avenue for Armistice Day.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

As we enter the month of December 2015, I remember my father who died 50 years ago on December 5.

Church bells tolled and officials laid wreaths across Europe on Armistice Day to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers killed during World War I.

A school was at the centre of a major emergency response sparked when four pupils fainted during an Armistice Day service, causing a “ripple effect” among other students.

The paltry representation of women on-air today belies the fact that from the foundation of the State women were fully equal and indeed a majority among electors, writes Gerard Howlin

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny and Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan represented the Republic yesterday at Remembrance Sunday events in Northern Ireland.

Following the release of a book on Kerry’s Republican dead last week, Ryle Dwyer relates how events on Dublin’s Vico Road in 1920 distorted The Kingdom’s history

We are in a national debate premised on the view that nature is like a bucket of coal to be burnt. Water is not a resource, a utility to be used — much less a so-called human ‘right’.

Today is Armistice Day, which marks the end of the First World War.

Four men have been arrested in Britain in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot.

For nearly a century ceremonies in Britain to remember those who fought in the First World War, and subsequently all wars, were animated by the phrase “Lest We Forget.” 

Four men have been arrested in England in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot.

The call by a Conservative MP, Michael Fabricant, for Ireland to rejoin the British Commonwealth following the successful state visit to the UK of President Michael D Higgins comes as no surprise. However, the response by Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes who said “such a proposal should be considered”, does.

While none of the films are new to the internet, many of them are already widely circulated. For instance, Great Cork Treaty (1922), a silent panorama of Michael Collins addressing thousands of people on Cork’s Grand Parade, when the throng is thrown into disarray by gunshots...

The first Sinn Féin mayor of Belfast to take part in an Armistice Day commemoration has described the decision to attend as the hardest of his political career.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore attended Remembrance Sunday events in Northern Ireland yesterday.

On Friday, Mar 29, graves and headstones in St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork were vandalised. Graffiti was daubed on some headstones.

A teenager arrested on Remembrance Sunday on suspicion of posting a picture of a burning poppy on Facebook is being questioned by British police.

Veterans in medal-laden uniforms have streamed into North Korea’s capital for ceremonies marking the end of the Korean War, an annual event being closely watched after the secretive country’s new leader reshuffled the leadership of the military.

MILLIONS of people across Britain observed a two-minute silence yesterday to remember those killed in conflicts past and present on Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War I.

PROTESTERS at the Occupy Cork camp have agreed to move their tents to allow Armistice Day commemorations to take place tomorrow.

CITY officials have asked Occupy Cork protesters to leave the city park where they have been camped for almost a month.

Michael D Higgins will be Ireland’s ninth president after one of the most remarkable political comebacks in the history of the state.

MILLIONS fell silent yesterday led by services in London to remember those who have died in war.

Dozens of Irish servicemen and women forgotten for decades after being buried in unmarked graves were finally remembered today at a poignant Armistice Day ceremony.

On this Armistice Day, Ryle Dwyer shares his journey to find the grave of his father who was killed in WWII

IN his column headlined ‘Where’s the Irish Mandela to lead us back into the Commonwealth?’ (September 29), Steven King performs a welcome volte-face in his apparent admiration for Nelson Mandela.

GERMAN and French leaders stood side by side at the World War I remembrance ceremony in Paris for the first time yesterday as events were held around the globe to honour the millions of dead.

The leaders of Germany and France appeared together for the first time at a First World War remembrance ceremony today and said it was now time to celebrate their countries’ reconciliation and friendship.

WATERFORD’S mayor has paid tribute to the work done by a Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) academic, which “ensured the sacrifices” of 114 known people from the south-east who served in the first world war would be remembered.

President-elect Barack Obama said he hoped to fulfil “the simple hopes and common dreams of all Americans” as he announced his resignation from the US Senate today.

President-elect Barack Obama said he hoped to fulfil “the simple hopes and common dreams of all Americans” as he announced his resignation from the US Senate today.

Junior Government ministers are attending events in Europe to mark the exact 90th anniversary of the ending of the First World War.

Tuesday marks the 90th anniversary of WW1 and here historian and journalist, Ryle Dwyer, argues why it should mark the beginning of a new understanding and respect for the 200,000 Irishmen who fought and the 38,000 who died in one of the world’s most horrendous conflicts.

Britain's war dead are to be remembered and honoured this Armistice Day.

The heroes of the First World War have been remembered around the world on Armistice Day today.