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O'Duffy Cup
The O'Duffy Cup ( ga, Corn Uí Dúbhthaigh) is the prize presented to the winners of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. The cup is named after Seán O'Duffy, a member and administrator of the Kilmacud Crokes club in Dublin, who presented the trophy to the sport's governing body, the Camogie Association of Ireland (Irish :''Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael''), now the Camogie Association or an Cumann Camógaíochta in 1932. An updated cup, modelled on the Ardagh Chalice, was presented in September 2007, valued at €25,000 with Wexford captain Mary Leacy Mary Leacy (born March 2, 1986 in Oulart, County Wexford) is an Irish sportsperson. She won camogie All Star awards in 2004, 2007 and 2010. She plays camogie with her local club Oulart–The Ballagh and has been a member of the Wexford s ... the first player to lift it. Wexford were crowned champions for the first time since 1975. References All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Camogie cup competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship is a competition for inter-county teams in the women's field sport of game of camogie played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Camogie Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Camogie Final being played on the second Sunday in September in Croke Park, Dublin. The prize for the winning team is the O'Duffy Cup. The men's equivalent tournament is the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Participants The county is a geographical region in Ireland, and each county organises its own camogie affairs. Twelve Counties currently participate in the Senior Championship following the promotion of Intermediate champions Down at the end of the 2020 season. These are Clare, Cork, Down, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Offaly, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath and Wexford. Format The counties participate in a group series with the top teams progressing to the knock-out stages. The eight teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán O'Duffy
Seán O'Duffy (; 1886 – 20 October 1981) was an Irish sports administrator. For 40 years, he was heavily involved in the development of camogie in Ireland; coordinating it on a national level. O'Duffy's contributions to camogie have been widely respected and the title "Mr. Camogie," is often associated with him.Seocháin, O.S. (1981, 30 October). Sean O’Duffy: An Apperciation. The Irish Times, pp.4. Early life O'Duffy was born in the year 1886, in Cill an Bhaile (Killawalla), County Mayo, Ireland; a town not far from Westport. He lived there until the age of 14, arriving in Dublin during the year 1900. During his time in Dublin, O'Duffy resided in Kenilworth Park, Harolds Cross, an inner suburb located in the south of Dublin. Throughout his life, O'Duffy had a strong interest in Camoige, but was also involved in political activities, taking part in the Dublin lock-out in 1913; a strike led by Jim Larkin, who was said to be O'Duffy's "hero" in his early life. In the year 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmacud Crokes GAA
Kilmacud Crokes ( ir, Cill Mochuda Na Crócaigh) is a large Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Stillorgan, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Background Kilmacud GAA club was formed in 1959 following a historic public meeting in Saint Laurence's Hall, where Stillorgan shopping centre now stands. The first meeting of the club took place on 12 March 1959. Sixty people attended the meeting and donated a shilling each, meaning the club made IR£3.30 on the night. The club decided to use green-and-white jerseys, but they later decided to use the gold-and-purple colours, some say because of the local school Scoil Lorcain Naofa who also use gold and purple, others say it was because blue are the colours of the crocus. In 1963 the club purchased a -acre site behind the Ormonde Cinema as a permanent home pitch for themselves, Páirc de Burca, and in 1965 the adjoining Glenalbyn House was bought. In April 1966, Crokes hurling club joined up with Kilmacud football club. The name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camogie Association
The Camogie Association ( ga, An Cumann Camógaíochta, formerly ga, Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael) organises and promotes the sport of camogie in Ireland and around the world. The association has close ties with the Gaelic Athletic Association, but is still a separate organisation. History The Camogie Association was founded in 8 North Frederick St, Dublin on 25 February 1904, with Máire Ní Chinnéide as President. In 1911, it was reconstituted as Cualacht Luithchleas na mBan Gaedheal ("Gaelic Athletic Company of Women") at a meeting organised by Seaghán Ua Dúbhtaigh at 25 Rutland Square (now Parnell Square), Dublin. It was revived in 1923 and the first congress held on 25 April 1925, when over 100 delegates gathered in Conarchy's Hotel, Parnell Square. It was reconstituted again in 1939 as Cumann Camogaiochta na nGael. For a period in the 1930s it organised women's athletics events. A breakaway Cualacht Luithchleas na mBan Gaedheal continued in existence during 1939–5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardagh Chalice
The Ardagh Hoard, best known for the Ardagh Chalice, is a hoard of metalwork from the 8th and 9th centuries. Found in 1868 by two young local boys, Jim Quin and Paddy Flanagan, it is now on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. It consists of the chalice, a much plainer stemmed cup in copper-alloy, and four brooches — three elaborate pseudo-penannular ones, and one a true pennanular brooch of the thistle type; this is the latest object in the hoard, and suggests it may have been deposited around 900 AD. The chalice ranks with the Book of Kells as one of the finest known works of Insular art, indeed of Celtic art in general, and is thought to have been made in the 8th century AD. Elaborate brooches, essentially the same as those worn by important laypeople, appear to have been worn by monastic clergy to fasten vestments of the period. Find The hoard was found in late September 1868 by two boys, Jim Quin and Paddy Flanagan, digging in a potato field on the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Leacy
Mary Leacy (born March 2, 1986 in Oulart, County Wexford) is an Irish people, Irish sportsperson. She won Camogie All Stars, camogie All Star awards in Camogie All Stars#2004, 2004, Camogie All Stars#2007, 2007 and 2010. She plays camogie with her local club Oulart–The Ballagh GAA, Oulart–The Ballagh and has been a member of the Wexford GAA, Wexford senior inter-county team since 2001. Leacy captained Wexford to the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, All-Ireland title in 2007 and won further All Irelands in 2010 and 2011, and a member of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2011#Team of the championship, Team of the Championship for 2011. Family background She is a daughter of Margaret O'Leary who won three All-Ireland medals with Wexford in All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1968, 1968, All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1969, 1969 and All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1975, 1975. Margaret (née O'Leary) who was selected at left half- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
