20m ‘Wave’ sculpture recalls Lusitania tragedy in Cork

The Lusitania tragedy has been commemorated in a stunning 20m bronze sculpture which will be unveiled as part of a new memorial garden on the Cork coast.

Relatives of some of the 1,191 people who perished when the liner was torpedoed 18km off the Old Head of Kinsale in 1915 will attend a ceremony on the headland on Sunday — the 102nd anniversary of the tragedy — to mark the unveiling of The Wave commemorative sculpture which forms the centrepiece of the garden.

Padraig Begley, a member of the committee which oversaw the development, described it as a “very special project on a special site”.