Records of Irish war dead go online

The records of 49,000 Irish soldiers who died during the First World War have gone digital in a new online archive

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, who launched the collection with Northern Ireland’s first and deputy first ministers at Google’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin, said it would serve both as an information portal and a commemoration.

“While the digitisation and online access to this record will be a rich resource for genealogy, most significant is its value in facilitating the simple and important act of remembering the individuals, Irish men and women, who lost their lives in the First World War,” Mr Gilmore said.