Ireland was not included in Britain’s conscription bill of January, 1916, but by then 90,000 Irishmen had volunteered, as many more would before 1918.

Fittingly and expectedly, the centenary commemorations of the Gallipoli landings on Saturday encouraged several airings of “And The Band Played ‘Waltzing Matilda”, writes John Fogarty.

President Michael D Higgins yesterday joined Britain’s Prince Charles and Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan at commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle on the Gallipoli peninsula.

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The day-to-day impact of the First World War on the lives of a Co Tipperary family is captured in an unique archive project opened at the University of Limerick.

Future historians proved their worth in digging up the past in their efforts to win prizes in an all-island schools competition.

Sixty nine men left Blackpool, in Cork City, to fight in World War 1 and never returned. Local historian Mark Cronin’s book, Blackpool to the Front, tells their story, which is echoed in towns across Ireland.

Almost every aspect of the First World War and its impact on Ireland will be discussed at a free public conference at University College Cork next week.

Singer-songwriter PJ Harvey could become the first act to win the Mercury Prize twice if she proves the bookies right and picks up the award at tonight’s event.

I WAS interested in the letter from Dr Pat Walsh (April 26) on the justification – or lack of it – for the invasion of Gallipoli by the British and French in 1915.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has paid tribute to thousands of Irish soldiers killed at the battle of Gallipoli while they fought for the British army.

I’M surprised you allowed Dr Patrick Walsh’s article (March 23) on the Gallipoli campaign to be printed considering the falsehoods it disseminated.

Thousands of people have gathered on the site of former WWI battlefields in Turkey for a ceremony to remember those who died in the devastating Battle of Gallipoli 93 years ago.

ON April 27, 1916, three days after Patrick Pearse stepped onto the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin to proclaim the new Irish Republic, 2,128 men of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horrifically from a German gas attack.

Prince Charles read a sombre psalm as some 20,000 people prayed and sang hymns at dawn today in Canakkale, Turkey, to mark the 90th anniversary of the devastating First World War Gallipoli campaign.

Amid tight security, Prime Minister John Howard paid a surprise visit today to Australian troops in Iraq for an emotion-charged dawn service honouring soldiers who fought and died in an ill-fated First World War campaign.