One of the more revealing and bizarre images from our struggle to come to terms with our past, to finally be at ease with all its dark challenges, is the picture of a group of protestors at Croke Park when England played there 11 years ago.

Gardai are examining footage from security cameras in the vicinity of St Stephen's Green to try to identify who was responsible for throwing paint over the Haunting Soldier sculpture.

A World War One sculpture in Dublin's Stephen's Green has been vandalised with red paint.

The 10 Dublin policemen killed in World War I will be remembered at a ceremony attended by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris tomorrow.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to those who fought in the First World War, in particular, the 200,000 Irish men who served and those who died overseas at the Armistice Day centenary commemorations at Glasnevin Cemetery.

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross believes the time has come for the creation of one single monument in Cork to “memorialise the humanity” of the county’s estimated 4,200 victims of the First World War.

Millions of words have been written over the last few weeks about the loss, legacy and contemporary relevance of the First World War. Many more were written about how we should mark it and learn its great lessons. That process continued yesterday in Paris when 70 world leaders gathered.

At least 40,000 Irish died in the Great War before the guns fell silent on November 11, 1918. The relief at the arrival of peace was tinged with sorrow and a sense of unfinished business, writes Gerry White.

During World War I, the only way to keep in touch with loved ones who were serving in the armed forces was through letters.

Memorial events will be held across the world today to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1.

Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, has conducted new research into Irish casualties in World War I.

The Great War did not end on November 11, 1918. The fighting stopped but a one-sided killing by other means continued into 1919, and was actually intensified.

Societies’ and individuals’ memories are shaped by a combination of emotions and experiences. Character and perception are influential too. Love, especially deep love between individuals, may be the most powerful, the most enduring of those factors.

From shoe box to window box, Tom Burke recalls the journey of Ireland’s First World War soldiers on eve of the centenary of the November 11, 1918, armistice.

The Irish Anti-War Movement have revealed they will hold a vigil at the entrance to the Irish National War Memorial in Island Bridge, Dublin on Sunday morning from 10am to 11am to remember all those who died and ask "what did they die for?".

The deep divide between Catholics and Protestants makes the coming together to honour the dead on both sides fraught with problems.

It would become known as the Great War, or the “war to end all wars”. Four years of bitter conflict from August 1914 to November 1918 which spread to involve more than 80% of the world, causing 37m casualties, military and civilian, and 16m deaths.

The American people — and the rest of the world — may yet pay a very heavy price for the actions of its president on the international stage, writes David A Andelman.

The centenary of the end of World War I comes as the UK is seeking to finalise the terms of its exit from the European Union. There is a strong historical resonance between both events. The issue of Ireland’s relationship with the UK, the nature of the Irish border, and the exertion of Ulster unionists in Westminster are as central to British politics today as they were in 1918, writes Marie Coleman

Around this time of the year there occurs a debate about the symbolism behind the poppy, the flower that grew on the Western Front battlefields of France and Belgium in the aftermath of the First World War.

A former mayor of Limerick has come out against a plan to erect a memorial to his uncle and all the other Limerick soldiers who died in the Great War.

Archaeologists working on Spike Island have discovered a First World War trench used to train troops heading to France and Gallipoli, foundations of long-gone buildings, and chess and gaming pieces carved from stone by convicts.

The first ever bid to excavate a First World War training trench in this country is under way.

One of the most dramatic radio reports of the Second World War has been brought to virtual and visual reality by a Waterford-based education company.

A First World War pilot has been honoured with a memorial in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery.

A special ceremony will take place today at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, to honour a Victoria Cross winner who pioneered aerial warfare tactics, shooting down 61 enemy planes — making him the fifth most deadly pilot of the First World War.

The memory of 200 East Cork men killed in the First World War will be kept alive by a memorial wall in Midleton.

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

100 years ago this week, just before shipping was made safer by the entry of the United States into World War I, a number of Cork vessels were sunk by German U-boats and mines. Patrick G O’Shea recalls one of the lost ships, on which a relative was killed.

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.

The wording on a new monument to soldiers from a British army garrison based in Tralee, Co Kerry, who died in the First World War, may be changed to help resolve a local row.