Hundreds have attended a dawn ANZAC Day memorial service in Dublin this morning.

The ceremony marked the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, which claimed the lives of thousands of Irish soldiers in 1915.

It's long since considred one of the First World War's bloodiest campaigns, in which 58-thousand Allied troops were killed in total.

Representatives from News Zealand, Austrailia, Turkey and Ireland spoke at this morning's ceremony at the Grangegorman Military cemetery.

The Tainaiste Joan Burton also addressed the event, while Minister Alex White laid a wreath on behalf of the Irish people.

Tanaiste Joan Burton says it's important to remember those who died in Gallapoli as well as in the First World War: