Armistice Day in Northern Ireland - in pictures

Bugler Noel Trimble plays The Last Post during a dawn Armistice Day ceremony at Enniskillen Castle in County FermanaghPA

This year's Remembrance Sunday is particularly poignant as it commemorates 100 years since the end of the World War One. Acts of remembrance in Northern Ireland started before dawn at Enniskillen Castle, with a bugler playing The Last Post before a two-minute silence.

DUP leader Arlene Foster lays a wreath at the Enniskillen Cenotaph during Remembrance Sunday in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which marked the end of World War One.PA

Later, at the cenotaph in Enniskillen, DUP leader Arlene Foster laid a wreath. She was joined by Irish government minister Heather Humphreys.

Veterans taking part in a Remembrance Sunday event at the Enniskillen Cenotaph, on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which marked the end of World War One.PA

Veterans were among the hundreds to gather in the town - which is among the most westerly in the UK - where representatives of the four main churches led a service.

Armistice Day centenary commemorations in BelfastPacemaker

One of the biggest events on Sunday took place at the cenotaph at Belfast City Hall.

Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney attends Armistice Day centenary commemorations in BelfastPacemaker

It was attended by Ireland's Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney...

NI Secretary Karen Bradley at the Remembrance Service at Belfast City Hall on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which marked the end of World War One.Belfast City Council

... and Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley.

Prince Andrew at a Remembrance Sunday service in St Anne's Cathedral in BelfastPacemaker

After attending the national service of remembrance in London, Prince Andrew hotfooted it to Belfast to give a reading in St Anne's Cathedral. The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin, told worshippers the sacrifice of soldiers from Protestant and Catholic backgrounds "bequeathed a shared responsibility to heal the past".

Irish president-elect Michael D Higgins places a wreath during a state remembrance event for Armistice Day in Glasnevin Cemetery in DublinPA

A state remembrance event for Armistice Day took place in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, where Irish President-elect Michael D Higgins laid a wreath.

A portrait of John McCance, a soldier from County Down who died at Passchendaele, is drawn in the sand at Murlough BeachPages of the Sea

Memorials also took place on beaches, including this one on Murlough in County Down. The large-scale portrait of local soldier John McCance, who died at Passchendaele, is part of filmmaker Danny Boyle's UK-wide event Pages of the Sea.

Pictures of soldiers are etched in the sand on Downhill Beach on Armistice Day to commemorate those killed in World War One, part of Danny Boyle's Pages of The Sea celebrations.Reuters

And at Downhill Beach in County Londonderry, pictures of soldiers were etched in the sand, alongside a portrait of Imperial Military Nurse Rachel Ferguson who died in June 1918.

A World War One soldier projected on to Titanic Belfast.There But Not There/PA Wire

This year's Remembrance Sunday, projected here on the Titanic Belfast museum, marks 100 years since the signing of the treaty which ended the battle on the Western Front at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.

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