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1932 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1932 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 45th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1932 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Mayo led 1-4 to 1-1 at half-time but, as in 1931, Kerry were much stronger in the second half. Goals by Bill Landers and Paul Russell helped Kerry to their fourth All-Ireland in a row. Kerry's Éamonn Fitzgerald missed the final as he was competing in the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held duri .... It was the third of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s. References {{All-Ireland Senior Football Championship All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final All-Ireland Senior Football Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1932 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 46th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners for the fourth year in a row. Results Connacht Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- Leinster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Munster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- Ulster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- All-Ireland Senior Football Championship ---- ---- Championship statistics Miscellaneous * Kerry equals Wexford (1915- 1918) by being All Ireland champions for the 4th year in a row. References {{All-Ireland Senior Football Championship All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) ( ga, Craobh Shinsir Peile na hÉireann) is the premier competition in Gaelic football. An annual tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gort GAA Colours
Gort ( or ) is a town of around 3,000 inhabitants in County Galway in the west of Ireland. Located near the border with County Clare, the town lies between the Burren and the Slieve Aughty and is served by the R458 and R460 regional roads, which connect to the M18 motorway. Etymology Gort is short for the complete Irish name, ''Gort Inse Guaire'' (''gort:'' a meadow, field, ''inse:'' an island, and ''Guaire:'' a proper name) and translates to "field of Guaire's island". History Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes ringfort, souterrain and holy well sites in the townlands of Gort, Ballyhugh, Cloghnakeava, Cloonnahaha and Lavally. In 2022, a large Bronze Age fort, located in Coole Parke near Gort, was dated between 800 and 1200 BCE during archeological work in the Burren lowlands. The Guaire in ''Gort Inse Guaire'' refers to King Guaire "The Generous" (Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin), the seventh century King of Connacht. Guaire reputedly kept royal residences i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayo Colours
Mayo often refers to: * Mayonnaise, often shortened to "mayo" * Mayo Clinic, a medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, United States Mayo may also refer to: Places Antarctica * Mayo Peak, Marie Byrd Land Australia * Division of Mayo, an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia Canada * Mayo, Quebec, a municipality * Mayo, Yukon, a village ** Mayo (electoral district), Yukon, a former electoral district Cape Verde * Maio, Cape Verde (also formerly known as Mayo Island) Republic of Ireland * County Mayo * Mayo (Dáil constituency) * Mayo (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * Mayo (UK Parliament constituency) * Mayo, County Mayo, a village Ivory Coast * Mayo, Ivory Coast, a town and commune Thailand * Mayo District, Pattani Province United Kingdom * Mayo, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland * Mayo (UK Parliament constituency), a former constituency encompassing the whole of County Mayo United States * Mayo, Florida, a town * Mayo, Kentucky, an unincorpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croke Park
Croke Park ( ga, Páirc an Chrócaigh, ) is a Gaelic games stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Named after Archbishop Thomas Croke, it is referred to as Croker by GAA fans and locals. It serves as both the principal national stadium of Ireland and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Since 1891 the site has been used by the GAA to host Gaelic sports, including the annual All-Ireland in Gaelic football and hurling. A major expansion and redevelopment of the stadium ran from 1991 to 2005, raising capacity to its current 82,300 spectators. This makes Croke Park the third-largest stadium in Europe, and the largest not usually used for association football in Europe. Other events held at the stadium include the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 Special Olympics, and numerous musical concerts. In 2012, Irish pop group Westlife sold out the stadium in record-breaking time: less than 5 minutes. From 2007 to 2010, Croke Park hosted home matches of the Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 46th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Kerry were the reigning champions, having completed the second senior four-in-a-row in 1932, following the Wexford team of 1915–1918. However, Kerry did not qualify for the 1933 final as they were knocked out in the semi-final. Cavan became the first Ulster county to win an All-Ireland, with first-half goals by Louis Blessing and "Son" Magee. A record crowd attended the game, with about 5,000 more locked out. Galway may have lost but they were regarded as a force for the future; this proved true as the following year they won their second All-Ireland football title and took the Sam Maguire Cup The Sam Maguire Cup ( ga, Chorn Sam Mhic Uidhir), often referred to as Sam or The Sam , is a trophy awarded annually by the Gaelic Athletic Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the football up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar , signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball under the crossbar into the net (the ball cannot be hand-passed into the goal), signalled by the umpire raising a green flag. Positions in Gaelic football are similar to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Russell (Gaelic Footballer)
Paul Russell (2 July 1906 – June 1965) was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dr. Crokes and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1924 until 1933. In a senior inter-county career that lasted a decade, Russell won every honour in the game at senior level. The youngest player to win an All-Ireland medal, he was only seventeen when he captured his first celtic cross in 1924. He went on to add five more All-Ireland titles to his collection. Russell also won seven Munster medals, three National Football League medals and three Railway Cup medals with Munster. He also played for Ireland in the Tailteann Games in 1928 and 1932. In retirement from play Russell trained the Meath and Waterford "Waterford remains the untaken city" , mapsize = 220px , pushpin_map = Ireland#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Ireland##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = 1 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamonn Fitzgerald (athlete)
Eamonn Fitzgerald (27 October 1903 – 9 June 1958) was an Irish athlete. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held duri .... References External links * 1903 births 1958 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Irish male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Ireland Place of birth missing Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Irish Free State sportsmen {{Kerry-gaelic-football-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's Triple Jump
The men's triple jump event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 4. Sixteen athletes from 12 nations competed. The 1930 Olympic Congress in Berlin had reduced the limit from 4 athletes per NOC to 3 athletes.Official Report, p. 377. Chūhei Nambu of Japan won gold with a world record breaking jump. It was Japan's second consecutive gold medal in the men's triple jump; Japan also became the third nation (after the United States and Sweden) to have two medalists in the event in the same Games as Kenkichi Oshima took bronze. Sweden took its first medal in the event since 1920 with Erik Svensson's silver. Background This was the ninth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning finalists from the 1928 Games were the two Japanese jumpers, gold medalist Mikio Oda and fourth-place finisher Chūhei Nambu; they were joined this time by Kenkichi Oshima was a Japanese triple jumper who won a bronze medal at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
