1923 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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| Event | 1923 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 28 September 1924 | ||||||
| Venue | 1924 → | ||||||
The 1923 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 36th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1923 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Pre-game
The Irish Civil War cast a shadow on the match — Kerry initially considered refusing to play in protest at the imprisonment of County Board chairman and republican Austin Stack. The Kerry team played a selection match between pro- and anti-Treaty players.[1]
Match
Summary
Dublin won the final by two points, with a goal by P. J. Kirwan.[1] Kerry had led 1–2 to 0–1 at half time with a goal from Brosnan but failed to score again in the game.
Joe Stynes, granduncle of Australian rules footballer Jim Stynes, played on the winning Dublin team that day.[2]
It was the third of three All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1920s, which made them joint "team of the decade" with Kerry who also won three.[3]
Details
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Post-match
The 1923 final marked the end of the initial era of the rivalry between Dublin and Kerry. Dublin would not beat Kerry in the Championship again until the
References
- ^ a b High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Dubliner who made a big impact playing Aussie Rules". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
His parents were Gaelic games enthusiasts – a grand uncle, Joe, had played on the 1923 All-Ireland winning Dublin team – and his father, a public servant, had played for the Civil Service club.
- Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ^ Moran, Sean (17 September 2011). "Kerry pioneers the kings of the urban-rural frontier". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
The initial era of the rivalry ended in the 1923 championship – by which stage Dublin had recorded half of their six victories in the fixture's history – with Dublin recording the county's third and final three-in-a-row, clinching it with what would be the last All-Ireland championship win over Kerry until 1976. Contemporary reports put the attendance at 25,000.