A number of events and ceremonies are taking place today in remembrance of soldiers who have died in conflict.
President Mary McAleese will attend the Royal British Legion Ecumenical Service of Remembrance and Reconciliation at Dublin's St Patrick’s Cathedral this afternoon.
Dublin's lord mayor delivered a speech to the Irish UN Veterans' Association at noon and laid a wreath at the organisation's headquarters in Arbour Hill, Dublin, to mark 50 years of UN peacekeeping.
Acts of remembrance are being held at cenotaphs across the North, nearly 90 years to the day after the end of the first World War.
Acts of remembrance were held at Cenotaphs across the country with one of the best-attended ceremonies in Belfast.
Servicemen and women from Northern Ireland also attended a march to the Cenotaph in central London, where Queen Elizabeth led tributes, joined by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The Somme Heritage Centre in Newtownards, Co Down, is hosting a weekend of activities to highlight the role in the war of thousands of Irish soldiers.