Editing Banagher (section)

====Memorials and sculptures====
[[File:Barnes & McCormack Memorial.jpg|right|thumb|Barnes & McCormack Memorial]]
A memorial in the form of a stone [[Celtic Cross]] is situated at the eastern side of the town. It is known as the Barnes & McCormack Memorial and dedicated to two local men who were executed in Birmingham in 1940 for their involvement in the [[S-Plan|Coventry Explosion of 1939]] in which five people died. The executions caused a public outcry in Britain and internationally as the men had admitted to constructing the bomb, which was intended to be used to destroy a power station, but claimed not to be involved in planting it.<ref>{{cite book | last = Anderson | first = Brendan | title = Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA | publisher = O'Brien Press | year = 2002 | pages = 29 | isbn = 0-86278-836-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Feehan| first = John M.| title = The Secret Places of the Shannon | publisher = Royal Carbery Books | year = 1980| pages = 64–65 | isbn = 0-946645-09-4}}</ref> The cross was erected in 1963 by The Barnes & McCormack Memorial Committee in association with The National Graves Committee and bears an inscription in both Irish and English: "In commemoration of Staff Captain James McCormack and Company Captain Peter Barnes, Irish Republican Army, who for love of country, were executed by the British Government at [[Winson Green Prison]], Birmingham on the 7th February 1940." The monument was sculpted by Desmond Broe of Dublin and features images of the two men, a female head representing Ireland and symbols of the four provinces.<ref name=MaddenHeritageTrail/>

In December 2011 the Zimbabwean artist, Parazai Havatitye, a sculptor who specialises in wood carving, created a sculpture from a tree stump, entitled ''The Musician'', which is dedicated to the musician [[Johnny McEvoy]], who was born in Banagher in 1945. The sculpture is located on the main road, at the gate of the marina.
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