Marcus Wilson (1932 – 22 March 2023) was an Irish

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 ...

er and hurler. At club level, he played with St. Vincent's and was also a member of the Dublin senior teams as a dual player.

Career

Wilson first played

and

hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...

as a schoolboy at St. Joseph's CBS in Fairview. His performances in the various schools' competitions earned his inclusion on the Leinsterurling team that won the All-Ireland colleges' title in 1949. Wilson subsequently joined the St. Vincent's club and won nine Dublin SFC titles and four Dublin SHC titles during a golden age for the club. Wilson first appeared on the inter-county scene as sub-goalkeeper on the Dublin minor football team that won the Leinster MFC title in 1949. He became a dual player at senior level and was a substitute on the Dublin senior hurling team that lost to Cork in the 1952 All-Ireland final, having earlier won a Leinster SHC title. Wilson later won three National League titles with the

Dublin senior football team The Dublin county football team represents Dublin in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Dublin GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Irelan ...

and was at full-back when

Derry Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...

were beaten in the 1958 All-Ireland final.

Personal life and death

One of four children born to Marcus Wilson, a veteran of the

1916 Easter Rising The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the a ...

who later had a career in the Defence Forces, Wilson was educated at St. Joseph's CBS in Fairview. He later became managing director of Heritage Tours Ltd. Wilson died at St. Francis Hospice in Blanchardstown on 22 March 2023, at the age of 91.

Honours

;St. Vincent's * Dublin Senior Hurling Championship: 1953, 1954. 1955, 1957 * Dublin Senior Football Championship: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 ;Dublin * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship:

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

* Leinster Senior Football Championship:

* Leinster Senior Hurling Championship:

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

* National Football League: 1952-53, 1954-55, 1957-58 * Leinster Minor Football Championship:

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

;Leinster *All-Ireland Colleges' Senior Hurling Championship: 1949

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Marcus 1932 births 2023 deaths St Vincents (Dublin) hurlers St Vincents (Dublin) Gaelic footballers Dublin inter-county hurlers Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers Gaelic football goalkeepers Dual players