The bus taking troops up to the trenches . Source: Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago, World War One was under way, changing the landscape of families both in the UK and Ireland.

No matter what your views of the War are, the fact remains that 150,000 Irish men enlisted to fight in the British Army and 49,000 of those Irish men, many with families, died overseas.

Irish volunteers came from all backgrounds and religions, from every county in Ireland, with many enlisting for different reasons.

This year, marking the centenary, many people are looking back into their family history, myself included, to find out what links they have to World War One.

My link to the Great War is my great grandfather, Patrick Carroll, who died in France in 1917. He was 34 years old, he had a wife and five children. But there are many stories like this dotted around the country.

You shared some of your stories with us last week.

Hot tea for men on their way out from the trenches. Source: Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images

Aoife Brogan told us about the research she had done so far into her great grandfather John Brooks.