World War 1 Roll of Honour Example 2

County Cavan World War I Roll of
Honour
Duration of project : April 2011-July 2012
Cost of project: €11,000
Project supported by PEACE III Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by the County Cavan Peace III Peace and
Reconciliation Partnership
Origins of Roll of Honour
1998 Peace Park and Round Tower in Messines Belgium was
opened by President Mary MacAleese , Queen Elizabeth II and
King Albert II.
Commitment given to compile a Roll of Honour for each
County in the Republic of Ireland.
In 2010 and 2011 Cavan Peace Partnership funded through the
SEUPB Peace III Programme two trips to the WW I
Battlefields of Belgium and Northern France ,over 50 people
from County Cavan attended.
Participants on trips to Messines, Ypres and the Somme deeply
moved by the scale and the role of Irish men in WW1
Working Group set up to discuss ways in which the memory
of those Cavan men who died in WW1 could be honoured.
Two main aims: Statue to be erected in Cavan town to
remember the men and a Roll of Honour to be complied.
Faugh a Ballagh’ Statue commissioned and erected in Cavan
town in 2011.Funded by SEUPB Peace III programme.
Working Group collaborated with the sculptor in design and
naming of statue
Origins of Roll of Honour Contd.
Researcher engaged by Cavan County Council
Local newspaper, radio and internet campaign seeking names and
information.
Peace Partnership recognised at the outset the need for balanced
recognition of past deeds on all sides.
Information slow to begin with but gradually built a momentum and
great interest generated.
Stories of granduncles, great grand uncles started to emerge.
Lance Corporal Hugh Murphy buried in Laleu France grave not
visited in 90 years from Ireland but Laleu commune have a
memorial ceremony every year at his graveside since 1919.
Mrs Margaret Naylor died in cross fire on the 29th April 1916 the
same day her husband John was killed in action with the Royal
Dublin Fusiliers
Roll of Honour unable to fully capture the human side of the tragedy
and horror of WW1
652 Cavan men named on Roll of Honour but the estimated figure
of Cavan men who died in WW1 closer to 800
160 Cavan men killed from April 1916 to end of November 1916,
41 on the 1st two days of the Somme alone.
Total national figures for Easter 1916 466 deaths including 254
civilians.
Cavan fatalities in Easter rising 1916 :1, Cavan casualties in War of
Independence and Civil War :10.
Need for balance in commemoration and to recognise the deeds and
sacrifices of all our traditions. Need to reflect on this forgotten
portion of our history in Cavan and look how we embed it into our
shared psyche and place it within context to the Easter 1916 and
1912 Ulster covenant commemorations.
Launch 1st July 2012 Cavan Town