Philip O'Sullivan (10 May 1895 – August 1952) was an Irish

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who played for a number of clubs in Kerry and Dublin and at inter-county level with the

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. He usually lined out as a defender.

Career

As a

er, hurler and athlete, O'Sullivan played his football with

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and hurling with

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. While a student in

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, he played with Faughs and

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and later when he took up a teaching post in Ballymacelligott he played with the local team. O'Sullivan first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kerry junior football team that won the All-Ireland Junior Championship title in 1915. He was subsequently promoted to the senior team and, after being on the losing side to

in the 1923 All-Ireland final,

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ed the team to the All-Ireland Senior Championship title the following year. O'Sullivan claimed a second winners' medal in 1926 and also won four Munster Championship titles during his brief senior career.

Personal life and death

Born in

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, O'Sullivan worked as a national school teacher. In 1927 he travelled with the Kerry team to

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where he met and later married Kathleen O'Mahoney. O'Sullivan spent the remainder of his life in New York. O'Sullivan died in August 1952 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in

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Honours

;Ballymacelligott *

Kerry Senior Football Championship The Kerry Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Garvey’s SuperValu Senior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 18 ...

: 1918 ;Kerry *

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) () is the premier inter-county competition in Gaelic football. County (Gaelic games), County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions. Organised by the ...

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(c),

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Munster Senior Football Championship The Munster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship and shortened to Munster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Munster GAA, Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Associatio ...

1923 In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ' ...

(c),

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All-Ireland Junior Football Championship The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship is a Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA competition It has historically consisted of two entirely different formats before and after 2021, but has retained the same name. Since 2022, the competition ...

: 1915 *

Munster Junior Football Championship The Munster Junior Football Championship is a gaelic football tournament between the six counties of Munster GAA, Munster: Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Clare and Waterford. It is the third-tier county teams playing off in a single-elimination ...

: 1914, 1915

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Osullivan, Phil 1895 births 1952 deaths UCD Gaelic footballers Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers People from Dingle Winners of two All-Ireland medals (Gaelic football)