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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roll of honour
noun
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▪ A roll of honour listed those killed in action.
▪ He's more interested in having his name engraved on sport's roll of honour than on its record bankroll.
▪ His hits make a roll of honour which stretches beyond just the charts.
▪ Many others would also have merited a place on the roll of honour.
▪ Whichever age you encounter down the Everton trail, you come up with marvellous contributors to the club's roll of honour.
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Roll of Honour

Roll of Honour may refer to:

  • A War memorial
  • A memorial list of names of people who have died in military, police service or other services
  • Roll of Honour (song), an Irish Republican song praising the participants in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
Roll of Honour (song)

Roll of Honour is an Irish Republican song, written by Gerry O'Glacain, that commemorates the 10 IRA and INLA hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in Northern Ireland. The names each of the men are contained in the lyrics of the song in the order that they died: Bobby Sands, (Francis) Hughes, Ray McCreesh, (Patsy) O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee and Michael Devine. The song describes the 10 as "Ireland’s bravest men" who were "Hungering for justice" and "For their rights as Irish soldiers and to free their native land". The song ends with the call to "Fight on and make our homeland a nation once again".

Usage examples of "roll of honour".

On the far wall, the boroughs roll of honour was lost behind an enormous video screen upon which, portrayed in advanced computer graphics of a three-dimensional kind, the projected stadium assembled and disassembled itself again and again and again.