1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Previous years All Irelnad champions Tipperary didn't take part in the Munster championship cancelled game against Clare. Cork were the champions.[1][2]
| All-Ireland Champions | |
|---|---|
| Winning team | Cork (1st win) |
| Captain | Jim Power |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Wexford |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Cork |
| Leinster | Wexford |
| Ulster | Armagh |
| Connacht | Galway |
| Championship statistics | |
← 1889 1891 → | |
Representative clubs
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
Connacht Championship
Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-final.
Leinster Championship
Ulster Championship
Championship statistics
Miscellaneous
- 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
- "FOOTBALL RESULTS 1887 - 1910". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- "Laune Ranger 1890". 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020.
- Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, September 29, 1890; Page: 3
- "The Munster Championships", The Kerry Sentinel, 1 October 1890, p.3
- "The Football Championship of Munster", The Kerry Sentinel, 22 October 1890, p.3
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