1939 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1939 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Cork, who defeated Galway by a 15-point margin in the final.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1939
Championship Details
Dates 14 May – 12 November
Counties
Sponsor
All Ireland Champions
Winners Cork (4th title)
Captain Renee Fitzgerald
Manager
All-Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up Galway
Peg Morris
Manager
Matches played 2

Semi-final

The exclusion of All Ireland champions Dublin in a dispute over the ban on hockey players (in practice the All Ireland championship was organised by the National Camógaíocht Association while Dublin remained in the old Association with support from Kildare and clubs in Meath and Wicklow) was to lead to an eight-year-long split in the Camogie Association. It opened the way for Louth to win the Leinster championship once more, defeating Meath by 8–2 to 4–1 in the Leinster final in Darver. A goal entering the third quarter from Kitty Buckley and two from Renee Fitzgerald were the turning points in Cork's 6–3 to 2–3 victory over Louth in the semi-final. Louth refused Cork's offer of a walkover in the All Ireland semi-final, also fixed for Darver. They paid Cork's travelling expenses, organised a welcome reception and then made their exit from the championship by an 11-point margin. Patsy McCullagh scored all of Galway's 2–1 in the semi-final in Belfast but missed the final.

Final

Renee Fitzgerald scored four goals in the final as Cork won by 15 points. Cork were not presented with the O'Duffy Cup as Dublin had not returned it. They played in grey, green and white, the colours of county champions, Old Aloysians, who supplied ten of the starting twelve.[7]

Final stages
Galway2–1 – 1–1Antrim
McRory Park
Cork6–2 – 2–3Louth
Darver
Cork6–1 – 1–1Galway
Cork
Galway
Cork:
GK1Peggy Hogg
FB2Joan Cotter
RWB3Bríd Cronin
CB4Kathleen Coughlan
LWB5Mary Fitzgerald
MF6Nan O'Dowd
MF7Lil Kirby (0–1)
MF8Maura Cronin
RWF9Kitty Buckley (1–0)
CF10Josie McGrath
LWF11Eileen Casey (1–0)
FF12Renee Fitzgerald (Capt) (4–0)
Galway:
GK1Josie Melvin
FB2Kathleen Keyes
RWB3Monica Duggan
CB4Catherine Griffin
LWB5Nora O'Connell
MF6Nora Kavanagh
MF7Kathleen Cosgrave
MF8Frances Coen
RWF9Hilda Murphy (1–0)
CF10Eileen O'Beirne
LWF11Peg Morris (Capt) (0–1)
FF12Celia Mulholland
Match Rules
  • 50 minutes
  • Replay if scores level
  • Maximum of 3 substitutions

See also

References
  1. Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
  2. Report of final in Irish Press, November 13, 1939
  3. Report of final in Irish Independent, November 13, 1939
  4. Report of final in Irish Times, November 13, 1939
  5. Report of final in Irish Examiner, November 13, 1939
  6. Report of final in Irish News, November 13, 1939
  7. Report of final in Irish Press, November 13, 1939
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