Jim Dermody
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Séamus Ó Diarmada | ||
Sport | Hurling | ||
Position | Goalkeeper | ||
Born | Three Castles, County Kilkenny, Ireland | 1 September 1898||
Died | 9 February 1975 Liverpool, England | (aged 76)||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Threecastles Tullaroan | |||
Club titles | |||
Kilkenny titles | 1 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1922-1934 | Kilkenny | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Leinster titles | 4 | ||
All-Irelands | 2 | ||
NHL | 1 |
James Dermody (1 September 1898 – 9 February 1975) was an Irish hurler. His league and championship career as a goalkeeper with the Kilkenny senior team lasted several years between 1922 and 1934.[1]
Born in Three Castles, County Kilkenny, Dermody first played hurling with the local Threecastles club. After a period playing for the Kilkenny club in New York, he returned to Ireland and joined the Tullaroan club with whom he won a county championship medal in 1930.[citation needed]
Dermody first played for Kilkenny as a replacement for the absent Mark McDonald in 1922. He lined out for the team in the earlier rounds of the championship, winning a Leinster medal, but missed the subsequent All-Ireland victory. After almost a decade away from the inter-county scene, Dermody returned as first-choice Kilkenny goalkeeper in 1931. Over the course of the following four seasons he won two All-Ireland medals and three further Leinster medals.[citation needed]
As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Dermody won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1932, as captain, and 1933. He had earlier represented the United States team in the 1928 Tailteann Games.[citation needed]
Honours
[edit]- Tullaroan
- Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1930
- Kilkenny
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1932, 1933
- Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (4): 1922, 1931 (c), 1932, 1933
- Leinster
- Railway Cup (2): 1932 (c), 1933
References
[edit]- ^ "Obituary: Jim Dermody". Finbarr Connolly website. Retrieved 29 May 2018.