Liner torpedoed off Kinsale by German submarine in May 1915 with loss of 1,198 lives

‘The memory of that Christmas truce is so important on this island at this time’

A century after Kaiser Wilhelm led Germany to war, his great-great-grandson is attempting to revive his family’s fortunes

A great murmur rose when the emperor, accompanied by members of the imperial household, appeared in the oratory

Only now are many Germans starting to engage with the memory of the war

During the long month of July, the British public enjoyed summer, listening occasionally to ever more strident tones from the Continent. For a while, however, they mostly did not choose to do so

A peaceful graveyard and Irish soldiers’ graves ... how Germany wrote a “blank cheque” to Austria-Hungary for its revenge on the Serbs and the corner of a German field that is forever Irish

Tsar Nicholas II refused to believe his forceful German cousin would back the Austrians after the death of Franz Ferdinand and his wife

For fear of reviving old hostilities, one French version of responsibility for it has the war ‘appearing as a sort of natural disaster that no one wanted – a catastrophe in which all are victims and none are responsible’

Populist posturing by politicians no substitute for facing responsibilities