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Re: Former Hibs player commemorated at war memorial in Derry
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I wasn't aware of this until tonight's BBC NI news, but a former Hibs player from the 1904/1905 season [Only Registered Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register], who was killed on July 1st 1916 at the Somme, is named on the [Only Registered Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register] in Derry.
According to BBC NI, Barney was from the Bogside area of Derry/Londonderry. The Diamond War Memorial is interesting in itself as, after research revealed that 48% of those named on the memorial were from nationalist communities, a team has been given funding to find out more and to make the memorial - previously seen by some as a unionist symbol - to be more of a shared memorial.
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Good find, very interesting. Definately worth the effort to make the memorials more accesible to Nationalist communities if there were a lot of commemarated soldiers, and especially seeing how Rememberence Day is celebrated here.
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