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Sean O' (John) Farrell
Sean (John) O'Farrell (1909–72) was born on a family farm in Kilcurl, Knocktopher, Kilkenny, in the village of Ballyhale. He was a well-known figure in National Farming circles through his role as managing director, National Ploughing Association and National Ploughing Championships (1958–1972), through his farming roots and also recognized throughout Kilkenny GAA and Wicklow GAA sporting circles for his sporting achievements on the field and contributions to the game off the field. John migrated to the UK before World War II, where he played cricket with Surrey, England. He returned to Ireland and lived in Wicklow from 1942 where he set up his business in County Wicklow, married Lil Doyle, owner of the Lil Doyle landmark pub in Barndarrig, County Wicklow, and lived until his death in 1972. He was committed to the Wicklow County GAA in trying to promote locally the standard of hurling and was very active in the campaign for the abolition of The Ban on GAA players playing non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilcurl
Kilcurl (historically ''Kylkeryl'' and ''Kilkirihill'' and ''Kirkirle''; ) comprises the two townland areas of Kilcurl Anglesey and Kilcurl Feronsby. The townlands are situated from its nearest village, Knocktopher, and located on a road to Carrickshock monument away and to Ballyhale. The village of Knocktopher is situated in the parish of Ballyhale, south County Kilkenny, in Ireland. Kilcurl is primarily an area of rich farmland, but is also of historical significance due to the presence of a castle at Kilcurl Feronsby, the Tithe War memorial at nearby Carrickshock, the ancient church and graveyard ruins at Kilcurl Anglesey, and an Ogham stone on adjoining lands with Ballyboodan. Its history has been established from extensive records, archives, local historians, recordings and international research. History Ancestry.com's Rootsweb references the very large number of historic castles of County Kilkenny including Kilcurl Castle, that number being due to a history dating back t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidi (; ; also written Ragdi; born August, 1938) is a Tibetan politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2008, and the highest ranking Tibetan in China. Biography He is a native of Biru County, Tibet Autonomous Region. He is a graduate of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, and joined the Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ... in October 1961. Tibetan Review wrote on September 3, 2019, that "China has included Re Di (also written as Raidi or Redi, but pronounced as Ragdi), one of top Tibetan collaborators with its occupation rule in Tibet, in a list of 36 nominees for its highest state honor which was announced on Aug 27. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Records And Statistics
This page details statistics of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. General Performances By province Counties By decade The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows: * 1890s: 4 each for Cork (1890, 92, 93, 94) and Tipperary (1895, 96, 98, 99) * 1900s: 4 for Kilkenny (1904, 05, 07, 09) * 1910s: 3 for Kilkenny (1911, 12, 13) * 1920s: 3 each for Dublin (1920, 24, 27) and Cork (1926, 28, 29) * 1930s: 4 for Kilkenny (1932, 33, 35, 39) * 1940s: 5 for Cork (1941, 42, 43, 44, 46) * 1950s: 3 each for Tipperary (1950, 51, 58) and Cork (1952, 53, 54) * 1960s: 4 for Tipperary (1961, 62, 64, 65) * 1970s: 4 each for Cork (1970, 76, 77, 78) and Kilkenny (1972, 74, 75, 79) * 1980s: 3 for Galway (1980, 87, 88) * 1990s: 2 each for Cork (1990, 99); Kilkenny (1992, 93); Offaly (1994, 98) and Clare (1995, 97) * 2000s: 7 for Kilkenny (2000, 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09) * 2010s: 4 for Kilkenny (2011, 12, 14, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932–33 National Hurling League
The 1932–33 National Hurling League was the sixth season of the National Hurling League. Format The ten participating teams were Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Offaly, Tipperary and Waterford who were divided into two divisions and agreed to play a four-game format whereby each team would play each of their five rivals once with two points awarded for a win and one point awarded for a drawn game. The two teams with the most points in each division at the completion of the season would play a final to decide the National Hurling League champions. National Hurling League Galway came into the season as defending champions of the 1930-31 season. On 9 April 1933, Kilkenny won the title after a 3-8 to 1-3 win over Limerick in the final. It was their first league title. Eastern Division table Group stage results Western Division table Group stage results Play-off Knock-out stage Final References {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Hurling League
The National Hurling League is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England. Founded in 1925 by the Gaelic Athletic Association, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the league system. The league has 35 teams divided into six divisions, with either five or six teams in each division. Promotion and relegation between these divisions is a central feature of the league. Although primarily a competition for Irish teams, teams from England – currently Lancashire GAA, Lancashire, London GAA, London and Warwickshire GAA, Warwickshire – also take part, while in the past New York GAA, New York also fielded a team for the latter stages of the league. Teams representing subdivisions of counties, such as Fingal GAA, Fingal and Down GAA, South Down have also participated at various times. The National Hurling League has been associated with a title sponsor since 1985. Ford Motor Company, Ford, Royal Liver Assurance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 47th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The draw for the Munster fixtures took place on 26 February 1933, while the draw for the Leinster fixtures took place on 5 March 1933. The championship began on 23 April 1933 and ended on 3 September 1933. Kilkenny entered the championship as the defending champions. On 3 September 1933, Kilkenny won the championship following a 1-7 to 0-6 defeat of Limerick in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title in succession and their 10th All-Ireland title overall. Limerick's Mick Mackey was the championship's top scorer with 4-8. Teams A total of 13 teams contested the championship, the same number of participants from the previous championship. There were no new entrants. Team summaries Results Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-finals Semi-finals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Medal Winners
This is a list of hurling, hurlers who have received a winners' medal in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Currently, the Gaelic Athletic Association issues 26 medals to the winning team; however, the individual county board have the option of ordering extra medals for members of the extended panel or for players who may have played during the championship but missed the final due to injury. The winning captain is also presented with a miniature version of the Liam MacCarthy Cup. Winning Players References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Medal Winners All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Winners Lists of hurling players, Winners All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballyhale Shamrocks GAA
Ballyhale Shamrocks is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the parish of Ballyhale in County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland. The club was founded in 1972 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling. Ballyhale Shamrocks are the most successful club in the history of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship with eight titles. Hurling History Beginnings Gaelic Games had been played in the parish of Ballyhale long before the Shamrocks club was established. By the early 1970s there were two competing clubs in existence in the parish, Ballyhale and Knocktopher, however, they were both facing extinction. A third club, Knockmoylan, had ceased to exist at some time in 1959. Because of the situation facing both clubs they decided to amalgamate in 1972 under the new name of Ballyhale Shamrocks. The club adopted as its logo a three-leaf shamrock with the letters K, B and K, representing the three clubs that had existed in the parish, inserted on each leaf. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the St Canice's Credit Union Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kilkenny SHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and contested by the top-ranking senior clubs in the county of Kilkenny in Ireland. It is the most prestigious competition in Kilkenny hurling. Introduced in 1887 as the Kilkenny Hurling Championship, it was initially a straight knockout tournament open only to senior-ranking club teams. The championship has gone through a number of changes throughout the years, including the use of a round robin, before reverting to a straight knockout format. In its current format, the Kilkenny Senior Championship begins in September with a first round series of games comprising eight teams, while the four remaining teams receive byes to the quarter-final stage. A team's finishing position in the Kilkenny Senior Hurling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicklow GAA
The Wicklow County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Cill Mhantáin) or Wicklow GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wicklow. The county board is also responsible for the Wicklow county teams. The county football team plays in the Leinster Senior Football Championship. Wicklow has had very little success at senior level, being the only football team in the province and one of two in Ireland to have never won a senior title in either code, the other being Fermanagh. The county hurling team competes in the Christy Ring Cup, the third tier of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. The county reached the final in both the 2011 and 2012 cups, losing to Kerry and London respectively. Governance Christopher Byrne served as chairman of the Wicklow County Board between 1931 and 1954. Football Clubs Wicklow's biggest achievement remains the All-Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Augustine's And Good Counsel College, New Ross
St Augustine's and Our Lady of Good Counsel College (''Coláiste na Dea Comhairle''), New Ross, known as "Good Counsel College" by its students and residents of the local area, is an all-boys secondary school in County Wexford, Ireland, which caters for over 850 students. It was founded and is now conducted by the Irish Augustinians. It is one of only two secondary schools in Ireland under the order of the Augustinians, with the other being in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. It is the largest school in New Ross. The current principal is Mark O Brien, who assumed the post in 2013, after the principal Fr. John Hennebry O.S.A. took the position of Provincial of the Order of Saint Augustine. Patron saint The College is named in honour of the 4th-century saint Augustine of Hippo, a philosopher and theologian whose writings were very influential in the doctrinal development of Western Christianity. Other English-speaking Augustinian schools with the same patron include one in Richland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Ó Síocháin
Seán Ó Síocháin (24 March 1914 – 2 February 1997) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, ballad singer, broadcaster and Gaelic games administrator. His championship career with the Cork and Dublin senior teams spanned seven seasons from 1935 until 1941. Born in Cill na Martra, County Cork, Ó Síocháin was the son of Daniel and Kate Sheehan (née Lynch). His father ran a small grocery business. Ó Síocháin was educated locally and, after qualifying as a national school teacher, moved to Dublin in 1935 where he taught for 11 years. Ó Síocháin first played hurling and Gaelic football with the Macroom club and won a county senior championship medal with the club as a seventeen-year-old in 1931. He later joined the Clann na Gael club in Dublin. Ó Síocháin won two more county senior championship medals with his adopted club. After impressing at club level, Ó Síocháin made his debut on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor team in 1932. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
