When the Lusitania first went into service in September 1907 it was the biggest ocean liner ever built. It sailed from Liverpool to New York and back with a stop at Queenstown (now Cobh) on each voyage.

The A14 and A11 are dual carriageways now, designed to speed motorists across the Cambridgeshire fens.

All the horror, heroism and heartbreak of the Lusitania’s sinking started to unfold on the dreary quays of Queenstown some six hours after the liner was torpedoed, writes Ray Ryan

UCC French lecturer Prof Grace Neville recounts how the sinking of the Lusitania shocked France

UCC historian Dr John Borgonovo recalls the response to the sinking of the Lusitania in his native US, which took another two years to enter the Great War

In May, 1915, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Cunard Line British passenger ocean liner, provoked riots across Britain.

The commander of the German U-20 submarine who ordered the devastating torpedo to be fired at the Lusitania and the officer who launched the strike have sidebar links to another dramatic event in Irish history — the 1916 Rising.

UCC art historian Ann Murray looks at how authorities came to give more thought to managing public opinion

In 1914, Cunard was unusual in having two large steamers constructed with a loan from the British taxpayer, and in being paid an annual subsidy, against their potential use as auxiliary cruisers, writes Dr Steve Cobb

Historian Gabriel Doherty outlines impacts of the Lusitania sinking, due to be analysed at a seminar in UCC; the following pages feature articles by other conference speakers

An exhibition which opened a month ago at Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool reveals that there were more passengers on board the Lusitania when it was sunk than official figures show.

The horror that unfolded off the Old Head of Kinsale as the Lusitania began to sink after being crippled by a German torpedo can only be compared in the history of this century with what happened in New York on 9/11 when two passenger jets were flown into the Twin Towers in a terorist attack that shocked the world, writes Ray Ryan.

THE last Master of the Lusitania was known to his friends as “Bowler Bill” because of the hats he wore when off duty, writes Ray Ryan

We’ve never been closer to the past. The continuing proliferation of online searchable material is making available to us all an ocean of information and artefacts from our past. 

It was wet and damp as crowds gathered at Pier 54 in the heart of New York City on May Day in 1915.

Any ship wreck that results in the mindless slaughter of 1,198 innocent citizens would seem to cry out for a thorough investigation.

Declan Keegan recalls the tale of his grandmother, May Barrett, and her pal Kitty O’Donnell, who survived the sinking of Lusitania

A fireman from Robert’s Cove in Co Cork had finished a four-hour shift in the coal bunkers deep in the Lusitania as she travelled along the calm sea that May morning, writes Ray Ryan

A young husband and wife held hands and jumped together for their lives from the deck of the sinking Lusitana, writes Ray Ryan