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Old Aloysius Camogie Club
Old Aloysius was a camogie club in County Cork. Notable players included Lil Kirby, Peggy Hogg, Kathleen Buckley, Renee Fitzgerald and Mary Moran (both later to become Presidents of the 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 Associati ...). Colours Cork wore the Old Aloysius colours green and grey instead of their red and white tunics in the 1939 All Ireland final to avoid a clash of colours with Galway. Achievements * Cork Senior Camogie Championship Winners (16) 1932, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961 References External links Camogie.ieOfficial Camogie Association Website * Wikipedia List of Camogie clubs Camogie clubs in County Cork {{Cork-GAA-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camogie
Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men only), it is organised by the Dublin-based Camogie Association or An Cumann Camógaíochta. The annual All Ireland Camogie Championship has a record attendance of 33,154,2007 All Ireland final reports iIrish Examiner an while average attendances in recent years are in the region o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Kirby
Elizabeth "Lil" Kirby ( ga, Éilís Ní Chiarbha; 1921–1987) was a camogie player who won six All Ireland medals and became fifth president of the Camogie Association. Early life She was the daughter of DW Kirby of Carrigpeter, Bishopstown Park, Model Farm Road, Cork. She went to University College Cork, and played on Ashbourne Cup camogie teams, joined Sunday's Well swimming club (winning the ocean swim from Crosshaven to Ocean's Point in 1940), Muskerry golf club, and became captain of her local Reserve Defence Forces during The Emergency. Members of Old Aloysians camogie club formed an archway of hurleys when she married David Crowley on 18 April 1941 in the Honan Chapel, University College Cork. Playing career She won All Ireland medals at midfield in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940 and 1941, when she captained the team. She also refereed the 1937 All Ireland final between Dublin and Galway. Her record of six All Ireland medals was not equalled until 1953 and not by a Cork ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Hogg
Peggy Hogg (7 July 1919 – 9 October 1994) was an Irish camogie player for Cork. Early life and family Peggy Hogg was born Margaret Mary Hogg in Tralee, County Kerry on 7 July 1919. Her parents were Margaret (née McCarthy) and John Hogg, a commercial traveller. She was an only child. The family moved to Cork soon after Hogg's birth, and lived at Highfield West, College Road. She attended St Aloysius School, Cork, and Le Bon Sauveur Convent, Holyhead, Wales. After school, she worked as an insurance official in Cork. As well as camogie, Hogg played tennis, playing for the Glenanaar tennis club and playing at inter-provincial level for Munster. She also played hockey at Le Bon Sauveur. She married Jack Fitzgerald in 1949. He was the brother of her teammate, Mary Fitzgerald. He worked for the Cork harbour commissioners. They had two children, a son Peter, and a daughter Geraldine. Playing career Hogg joined the Old Aloysius Camogie Club when she finished school, where she too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Buckley
Kathleen 'Kitty' Buckley is a former camogie player, five time All Ireland senior medalist and captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1941. In the final of that year, she scored a record six goals of Cork's seven. She had previously featured on All Ireland senior final panels in 1934 (as a substitute), 1935, 1936, 1939, and 1940. Career With UCC, she won Ashbourne Cup medals in 1936 and 1937. She was a prolific goalscorer with both club and county, reportedly scoring nine goals for Cork in their 14–0 to 1–1 defeat of Clare in the first round of the championship on the week before Cusack Park, Ennis was opened in 1936, and scoring two goals in the All Ireland final of that year. She scored a goal in the 1938 final, in which Cork were beaten by Dublin, a further goal each in both the 1939 and 1940 finals when Cork beat Galway and in the 1942 replay when Cork lost to Dublin. Other sports She played inter-provincial tennis Tennis is a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renee Fitzgerald
Renee Fitzgerald is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1939, scoring four of Cork's six goals in the final. Career She won a further All Ireland senior medal in 1940, scoring two goals in Cork's 4-1 to 2–2 defeat of Galway. She scored a goal and had another controversially disallowed in Cork's 1942 All Ireland final draw against Dublin, before Cork lost the replay. She reportedly scored six goals in Cork's 11-4 to 1–0 defeat of Limerick in the 1942 Munster final. References External links Camogie.ieOfficial Camogie Association Website Year of birth missing Cork camogie players Possibly living people {{Cork-camogie-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Moran (camogie)
Mary Moran, ga, Máire Ní Mhóráin, was the 18th president of the Camogie Association, elected at the 1973 Congress in the Blarney Hotel in a run-off against Mary Lynch of Monaghan. Family and early life A native of Limerick city, she is the daughter of John and Frances Moran, fourth of a family of six. When she moved to Cork at the age of 11, she attended St Aloysius School (a camogie nursery in those days) and was introduced to game for the first time. Camogie Moran won Cork Colleges senior and junior championship medals with St Aloysius and played with Cork colleges against Dublin. She played Ashbourne Cup with UCC, and won Cork senior and junior championship medals with Old Aloysius Camogie Club, Aloysians (confined to past and present pupils of St Aloysius School). On being appointed to AIB, Enniscorthy she played with Kilcarry and won a Carlow County Championship medal. On being appointed to AIB, Dame St, she joined Dublin camogie side Celtic, winning Dublin senior le ... [...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] |
Dictionary Of Irish Biography
The ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' (DIB) is a biographical dictionary of notable Irish people and people not born in the country who had notable careers in Ireland, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.Dictionary of Irish Biography 9 Volume Set History The work was supervised by a board of editors which included the historian . It was published as a nine-volume set in 2009 by |
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