1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
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Event | 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 20 October 1889 | ||||||
Venue | Inchicore, Dublin | ||||||
Attendance | 1,500 | ||||||
The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the second All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Tipperary were the winners.
The Queens County (Laois) team that lost to Tipperary were from the Portlaoise club.[1]
Gaelic football was considered to be "the work of the devil" at this time.[2]
It was Tipperary's first All-Ireland football title: they would win three more in 1895, 1900 and 1920. Football has since gone by the way side in the county, with hurling now being more prominent.[3]
References
Further reading
- Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
- Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).