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Jack Dempsey (Gaelic Footballer)
Jack Dempsey (1878 – 10 December 1913) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. His championship career at senior level with the Dublin county team lasted six seasons from 1902 until 1907. In spite of being a native of Wexford, Dempsey enjoyed his greatest club success as a member of the Bray Emmets club. He won his sole county senior championship medal in 1901. Dempsey made his debut on the inter-county scene as a member of the Dublin senior football team during the 1902 championship. Over the course of the next six seasons, he won three All-Ireland medals, beginning with a lone victory as captain of the team in 1902, followed by back-to-back championships in 1906 and 1907. Demspey also won four Leinster medals. Dempsey died from tuberculosis on 10 December 1913. Honours ;Bray Emmets *Dublin Senior Football Championship (1): 1901 ;Dublin * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (3): 1902 (c), 1906, 1907 * Leinster Senior Football Championship (4): 1902 (c), 1904, 1906, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bray Emmets GAA
Bray Emmets Gaelic Athletic Association is a hurling, camogie, Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football club in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. History The first club AGM took place on 11 December 1886. The first recorded Bray Emmets team played Dalkey in a field at the Vevay in 1885. The club took its name from Robert Emmet (1778–1803), an Irish rebel leader. The club host the annual All-Ireland Kick Fada Championship, first held in 2000. Honours Hurling * Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1) 2022 * Wicklow Senior Hurling Championship (8) 1952, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 * Wicklow Intermediate Hurling Championship (3) 2006, 2015, 2022 * Wicklow Junior Hurling Championship (3) 2004, 2014, 2020 (Played 11/06/2021 due to covid restrictions) Football * Wicklow Senior Football Championship (3) 1934, 1935 * Dublin Senior Football Championship (1) 1901 * Wicklow Intermediate Football Championship (2) 1973, 1997 Camogie * Wicklow Intermediate Camog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 21st staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin won their tenth All-Ireland title. Format The four provincial championships were played as usual; the four champions joined in the All-Ireland championship. Results Connacht Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- Leinster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- An objection was made and a replay ordered. ---- ---- An objection was made and a replay ordered. ---- ---- ---- Munster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- Ulster 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 contested by the county ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin Inter-county Gaelic Footballers
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 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 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 sixth largest in Western Europe after the Acts of Union in 1800. Following independence in 1922, Dublin becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Deaths
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station. * February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks. * January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles. * January 24 – Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. * January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. * January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople. * February 2 – Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies, after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed). * February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters, and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul, but does not carry out the threat. * Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (sport)
In team sport, captain is a title given to a member of the team. The title is frequently honorary, but in some cases the captain may have significant responsibility for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field. In either case, it is a position that indicates honor and respect from one's teammates – recognition as a leader by one's peers. In association football and cricket, a captain is also known as a skipper. Various sports have differing roles and responsibilities for team captains. Depending on the sport, team captains may be given the responsibility of interacting with game officials regarding application and interpretation of the rules. In many team sports, the captains represent their respective teams when the match official does the coin toss at the beginning of the game. The team captain, in some sports, is selected by the team coach, who may consider factors ranging from playing ability to leadership to serving as a good moral example to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Ireland Senior Football Winning Captains
This is a list of players who have captained a winning team to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football. The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is an annual series of games usually played in Ireland during the summer and early autumn, and organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Contested by the top inter-county football teams in Ireland, the tournament has taken place every year since 1887—except in 1888, when the competition was not played due to a tour of the United States by would-be competitors. List of winning captains List of players who have captained their team to All-Ireland success on more than one occasion A select number of players have captained their team to All-Ireland success on more than one occasion. See also * Sam Maguire Cup * List of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning captains References {{All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Captains Captain is a title, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thady O'Gorman
Thady O'Gorman (30 May 1874 – 15 July 1944) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with Tralee Mitchels and was an All-Ireland Championship-winning captain with the Kerry senior football team. Playing career Born in Tralee, O'Gorman first played Gaelic football when he joined the Tralee Mitchels club as a 17-year-old. He won three county senior championship medals with the club between 1897 and 1903, captaining the team in the latter year. O'Gorman first lined out for the Kerry senior team at the age of 20 but enjoyed his greatest success at the end of his career. In 1903 he became the first player to captain Kerry to the All-Ireland Championship, before claiming a second successive winners' medal the following year. O'Gorman also claimed back-to-back Munster Championship medals during this time. Personal life O'Gorman lived in Tralee his entire life and worked as printer with ''The Kerryman'' newspaper. His twin brother, Jamesy O'Gorman, was also an A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Darcy (Gaelic Footballer)
John Francis Darcy (23 June 1898 – 28 January 1972) was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-forward for the Tipperary senior team. Darcy made his first appearance for the team during the 1922 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1926 championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and three Munster medals. At club level Darcy played with Nenagh Éire Óg. His brother Mick Mick is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Michael (given name), Michael. Because of its popularity in Ireland, it is often used in England as a List of ethnic slurs, derogatory term for an Irish people, Irish person or a ... was also an All-Ireland winner with Tipperary. References 1898 births 1972 deaths Nenagh Éire Óg hurlers Tipperary inter-county hurlers All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners {{Tipperary-hurling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dublin Senior Gaelic Football Team Captains ...
This article lists players who have captained the senior Dublin county football team in the Leinster Senior Football Championship (SFC) and the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC). Unlike other counties the captain is not chosen from the club that has won the Dublin Senior Football Championship (SFC). List of captains {{Dublin county football team Gaelic football Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 18th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners. Results Connacht Senior Football Championship ---- Leinster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- An objection was made and a replay ordered. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Munster Senior Football Championship Despite a Limerick win Waterford still qualified. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Ulster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- An objection was made and a replay ordered. ---- ---- ---- An objection was made and a replay ordered. ---- ---- ---- ---- 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 contested by the county ... ---- ---- Championship statistics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 20th year of the 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 kic ... competition. The competition was between the winners of the four provincial championships with Dublin as the All-Ireland champion for that year. In the Leinster final they ended Kildare's period as All Ireland champions. Results Connacht Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- Leinster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Munster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Ulster Senior Football Championship ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Because the Leinster championship was still underway when the quarter-final was to be played, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
