Bernard Donaghey

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Bernard Donaghey
Personal information
Full name Bernard Donaghey[1]
Date of birth (1882-12-23)23 December 1882
Place of birth Derry, Ireland
Date of death 1 July 1916(1916-07-01) (aged 33)[2]
Place of death near Beaumont-Hamel, France[3]
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[4]
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1900–1902 Derry Celtic (3)
1902 Ulster
Belfast Celtic (8)
1904 Glentoran 2
1904–1905 Hibernian 15 (8)
1905 Derry Celtic
1905–1906 Manchester United 3 (0)
1906–1907 Derry Celtic
1907–1908 Burnley 5 (2)
0000–1914 Derry Celtic (17)
1914 Dumbarton Harp
International career
1902–1905 Irish League XI 2 (0)
1902 Ireland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bernard Donaghey (23 December 1882 – 1 July 1916), sometimes known as Barney Donaghey,[5] was an Irish professional footballer, who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Burnley and Manchester United.[1] He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian and in his native Ireland for Derry Celtic (four spells), Ulster, Belfast Celtic and Glentoran.[4][3] Donaghey was capped by Ireland at international level and represented the Irish League.[6][7]

Personal life[edit]

Donaghey was a Catholic and was married.[5][8] Prior to the First World War, Donaghey was a reservist in the British Army and in early 1915, during the second year of the war, he enlisted as a private in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.[3] He saw action at Gallipoli and was wounded in the head by shrapnel and evacuated to a hospital in Tanta, Egypt.[3][5] After being deployed to the Western Front in 1916, Donaghey was killed on the first day on the Somme, during his battalion's attack on German trench lines and the Y-Ravine strongpoint, south of Beaumont-Hamel.[3] His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.[2][9]

Honours[edit]

Derry Celtic

Career statistics[edit]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Glentoran 1903–04[3] Irish League 2 0 0 0 2 0
Hibernian 1904–05[10] Scottish First Division 15 8 2 0 17 8
Manchester United 1905–06[3] Second Division 3 0 0 0 3 0
Burnley 1907–08[3] Second Division 5 2 0 0 5 2
Career total 23 10 2 0 25 10

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 83. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. ^ a b "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Bernard Donaghey". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Barney Donaghey". nifootball.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b c "July 1, 1916, and the Derry Catholic Dead". Derry Journal. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. ^ Bernard Donaghey at National-Football-Teams.com
  7. ^ "Bernard Donaghey". 11v11.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  8. ^ "The players we lost in war". ManUtd.com. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Football Remembers – The 1914 Christmas Truce Education pack" (PDF). p. 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Hibernian Player Bernard Donaghy Details". Retrieved 5 December 2017.

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