1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamCork (1st win)
CaptainJim Power
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamWexford
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterWexford
UlsterArmagh
ConnachtGalway
Championship statistics
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1891 →

The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Previous years All Ireland champions Tipperary didn't take part in the Munster championship cancelled game against Clare. Cork were the champions.[1][2]

Representative clubs

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From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

County Club
Armagh Armagh Harps
Cork Midleton
Dublin Isle of the Sea
Galway
Kerry Laune Rangers GAA
Limerick St. Patricks [3]
Tyrone
Wexford Blues & Whites

Results

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Connacht Championship

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Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-final.

Munster Championship

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Clare0-0 - 0-0Tipperary
Kerry0-9 - 0-0Limerick
Cork0-6 - 0-0Waterford
Kerryw/o - scr.Clare
Cork0-0 - 0-0
Unfinished. The ball burst after 57mins of play [4]		Kerry
Cork1-4 - 0-1Kerry

Leinster Championship

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Dublin6-11 - 0-2Westmeath
Wexford0-2 - 0-2Kilkenny
Wexford0-0 - 0-0Kildare
Laois0-5 - 0-0Kildare
Laois0-1 - 2-8Dublin
Referee: T Lee (Dublin)
Wexford0-3 - 0-2Louth
Wexford1-3 - 1-2Dublin

Ulster Championship

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Armagh3-7 - 0-1Antrim
Referee: James Weldon
Armagh2-8 - 1-2Tyrone
Blaris, Lisburn

All-Ireland Championship

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Cork1-15 - 0-0Armagh
Clonturk
Wexfordw/o - scr.Galway
Main article: 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Cork2-4 - 0-1Wexford
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: J.J. Kenny (Dublin)

Championship statistics

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Miscellaneous

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  • Cork won both the Munster and All Ireland titles for the first time. There were Double All Ireland champions in both football and hurling it happened again 100 years later too in 1990.

References

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  1. ^ "FOOTBALL RESULTS 1887 - 1910". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  2. ^ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Laune Ranger 1890". 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020.
  4. ^ Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, September 29, 1890; Page: 3
  5. ^ "The Munster Championships", The Kerry Sentinel, 1 October 1890, p.3
  6. ^ "The Football Championship of Munster", The Kerry Sentinel, 22 October 1890, p.3
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