The 90th anniversary of the death of Co Meath poet Frances Ledwidge will be marked in his native Slane today.
Ledwidge died at the Battle of Ypres in Belgium just weeks before his 30th birthday on July 31st, 1917.
The Francis Ledwidge Museum and War Memorial Centre now stands at his birthplace.
After a poor upbringing, Ledwidge joined the Enniskillen Fusiliers in 1914 and later saw action in Gallipoli, France, Serbia and Belgium. He was killed when a shell exploded near his posting at the third Battle of Ypres in 1917.
Ledwidge only published one volume of poetry - Songs of the Fields- while he was still alive. However further collections followed in 1917 and 1918 with the help of local patron Lord Dunsany.
He was buried at Carrefour de Rose and later reinterred in the nearby Artillery Wood Military Cemetery.
A stone tablet commemorates him in the Ireland Peace Park in Messines, Belgium.