COMMEMORATIONS can help shape our collective political, social and cultural conscience and may be a source of healing and learning…

ON the first day of Queen Elizabeth’s Irish visit, with synchronicity a group assembled at the grave of Willie Redmond in Flanders…

MILITARY HISTORY: Gallipoli By Peter Hart Profile, 534pp. £25

FROM THE ARCHIVES: At the beginning of December 1914, the British authorities in Ireland banned a number of publications including…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: A month before the end of the first World War, the mid-morning mail boat from Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead, …

FROM THE ARCHIVES: A year after the start of the first World War there was a continuous recruiting drive to entice volunteers…

The success of nationalist politicians, especially the East Mayo MP John Dillon, in preventing the British government from introducing…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The first Christmas of the first World War is remembered mainly for the outbreak of peace and a football …

BACK PAGES: The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, estimated to have killed more than 50 million worldwide, affected Ireland as everywhere…

September 1st 1914. THE START of the first World War in August 1914 exposed deep divisions among nationalists, not least among…

READERS OF The Irish Times on Easter Monday in 1916, April 24th that year, would have had no inkling of the historical change…

HISTORY: Gallipoli: The End of the Myth By Robin Prior Yale University Press, 304pp. £25

POETRY: Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 Edited by Gerald Dawe Blackstaff, 412pp, £16

Poetry: In his fictionalised autobiography, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, Siegfried Sassoon recounts the following…

IRISH HISTORY: British intelligence was understandably disparaging in 1922

There are few enough times indeed when a reviewer's heart lifts with unmitigated joy at a work, not merely because of the scholarship…

For all the studies which have poured from scholars over the decades, one historian of the Great War stood quite massively alone…

The opening of the Island of Ireland Peace Tower at Messines in Belgium in 1998 marked a turning point in Irish remembrance of…

Had you taken a sleeping draught a mere 10 years ago, and finally woken up this month, you would not know the Ireland before …

In The Great War with Germany 1890- 1914 (1997), I. F

The early months of 1918 did not promise well for the Western Allies; with Russia knocked out of the war, Ludendorff transferred…

The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 probably has been fought over as often as the Somme or Passchendaele, yet this new account …

Siegfried Sassoon. By John Stuart Roberts. Richard Cohen Books. 354pp. £20 in UK.

Stone's book has become a virtual classic since it first appeared in 1975

THIS is a finicky book about a huge subject. I'm not sure editor is driving at.