To mark the end of the War of Independence, the GAA wishes to acknowledge the deaths of those members of the Association who lost their lives during the period. Historian, author and GAA History Committee member Dr Dónal McAnallen has researched this period in some depth, and in this article, he attempts to quantify the loss of lives among GAA members during these tumultuous years. The resulting list is not intended to be final and definitive, but is an important starting point and piece of work on a subject with little previous research.

The Irish War of Independence had a profound impact on the Gaelic Athletic Association, and most of its members were affected directly or indirectly.

Violence and security measures caused suspension of games for months on end in most counties. There were even military occupations of a few pitches and infamously some matches were invaded. Competitions fell behind, from local to All-Ireland level. Numerous teams folded, and some never came back. Like nationalist Ireland in general, the association became very much radicalised by the rapid sequence of events. Many men’s playing careers with their home clubs ended through imprisonment, going ‘on the run’, enforced migration or exile, and injury. And then, inevitably, came death too.

The most-remembered GAA player killed during this war was Michael Hogan of Tipperary, shot dead at Croke Park on 21 November 1920. The dedication of the Hogan Stand to his memory has ensured that Hogan is the predominant martyr in the GAA’s public memory. As part of its centenary commemorations for Bloody Sunday, a major effort was made by the GAA to remember all 14 of the innocent victims killed at Croke Park that day.

Beyond Bloody Sunday

What of other GAA members who died in the same conflict? How are they to be remembered? After some deliberation, Coiste na Staire agus na gCuimhneachán CLG – the GAA’s national History and Commemorations Committee – concluded that it would not be practical for the association at central level to attempt to organise separate commemorations for each deceased member of a century ago.

Several reasons underlay this decision. The lack of a comprehensive list of GAA members who died during this conflict made it unfeasible for the association to contemplate staging individual memorial ceremonies for each. If some were to be formally remembered during 2020-21, but it were later to transpire that others’ anniversaries had been missed, it would risk causing unnecessary offence.

Even if a reliable list of deceased had been to hand, the association might have overstretched its remit had it tried to hold a ceremony for each one, as affiliation to the GAA was a fleeting thing for some of the victims; and in most cases – Bloody Sunday and two other shootings being obvious exceptions (Michael John Kelleher, who was shot dead while playing hurling with his brother and a friend, as referred to below; and Patrick White, whose shooting was discussed in a previous article on www.gaa.ie – their violent deaths bore no connection to their sporting activities.

Local clubs were better placed to stage commemorative initiatives as they would deem appropriate, and indeed several have since done so – including online events, due to lockdowns and other restrictions of the last two years. This localised approach aligned with the advice from the government’s Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations that such activities should be led locally.

For its part, Coiste na Staire resolved to research and compile a list of War of Independence casualties from GAA ranks, to leave a useful reference source as a legacy.

Such efforts have become more achievable in recent years due to enhanced access to digital archives of newspapers and other literature. The Dead of the Irish Revolution (2020), an outstanding volume authored by Prof. Eunan O’Halpin and Dr. Daithí Ó Corráin, records details of 2,849 lives lost during the 1916-21 period.

Nonetheless, trying to determine precisely how many GAA members were killed during the war is tricky terrain, as treacherous as the trenches and ditches and sheughs and hills and glens and fields and boreens that were the chambers of this conflict.

Defining Membership

The first impediment is the vague definition of GAA membership a century ago. There was no central register of GAA members then. Beyond adult players and office-holders, few other people paid club affiliation fees c. 1919-22, unlike today. Hence the researcher is largely reliant on lists of players and club office-holders in contemporary press reports, or other verifiable references to someone as a ‘GAA member’, in order to count them. Otherwise, occasional supporters or partisans of a club or county are excluded. Of the 14 people killed at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, only Michael Hogan and Joe Traynor (a 20 year-old footballer with Young Emmet’s in Dublin) have been confirmed as GAA members; the other 12 victims are not known to have been actively involved in Gaelic clubs. This narrow application may rule out some paid-up members from consideration, but to include all casual spectators by default would likely be more erroneous. The other Croke Park victims were Jerome O’Leary (10), William Robinson (11), John William Scott (14), Tom Hogan (19), James Teehan (26), Tom Ryan (27), Jane Boyle (29), Daniel Carroll (30), James Matthews (38), Michael Feery (40), James Burke (44) and Patrick O’Dowd (57).

This definition of GAA membership also tends to rule out all juveniles, who had few regular club or inter-county competitions a century ago. Those who played Gaelic games at school only have not been included here. The reason for this distinction, albeit strict, is that school games were a rite of passage for many children, and mostly outside of the aegis of the GAA; whereas joining a club and playing competitively was a voluntary, conscious act, and affiliating to the GAA then – at a time of restrictions on participation between sports – was also a de facto statement of allegiance.

In aiming for historical accuracy, we ought also to try to filter out any embellishment or other inaccuracy that occurs as the memory of the dead is retold and reimagined. Consider the three victims of the ‘Limerick Curfew Murders’, carried out by masked Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) Auxiliaries on 7 March 1921. Seoirse (George) Clancy, then Mayor of Limerick, had been to the fore in hurling clubs as an undergraduate in Dublin in the 1900s, when he befriended the ailing Michael Cusack and captained the Confederate HC. That much is not in doubt. More complicated, however, is the status of the other two victims in Limerick that night in 1921 – ex-mayor Michael O’Callaghan, and Volunteer Joseph O’Donoghue, aged 24, a Westmeath native. Contemporary accounts do not ascribe any direct GAA links to these two men. Whereas Conradh na Gaeilge was among the many bodies officially represented at the joint funeral, all of the victims being identified as Gaeilgeoirí, the Gaelic sports bodies of the city were less prominent in the mourning, with two wreaths of general sympathy – from the Claughaun and Young Ireland clubs (the latter, ‘In proud remembrance …’) – being the sum total of formal GAA response reported in the Limerick Leader. In 2021, when the GAA’s Limerick County Board led centenary commemorations for the three martyrs, it took on almost a civic responsibility in recognition of their significance. Amid the surrounding media commentary, an online article claimed that they were ‘all committed members of the GAA’. Not all such claims can be verified satisfactorily, and further research is necessary.

Female deaths do not feature large in this short study. The chief reason for this is that relatively few women were killed in the War of Independence – O’Halpin and Ó Corráin calculate that a mere 4% of those killed by violence in the 1916-21 period were women. Hardly any women were paid-up members of the GAA at that time, but members of the Camogie Association are eligible for this count, as it was the sister body and essentially the mirror image of the GAA. Still, however, camogie was going through a fitful existence in these early decades, yet having no real bastions outside the cities. Only one camogie player has been identified here – Margaret Keogh of Dublin, a 19-year-old captain of the Croke’s team and member of Cumann na mBan who died during a raid by Black and Tans on a ‘safe-house’ at Irishtown, Dublin, in July 1921.

Period of Study

The period examined here spans from January 1919 to December 1921 in respect of Connacht, Leinster and Munster; and up to May 1922 in Ulster.

January 1919 is the widely recognised starting-point of the War of Independence. While some authorities draw the line at the Truce in July 1921, it has been decided in this instance to align with the December 1921 cut-off point – in connection with the Anglo-Irish Treaty – as selected by others such as O’Halpin and Ó Corráin.

The reason for selecting a later end-date for Ulster is that the Truce never truly took effect north of the newly imposed border, and the IRA’s campaign in the north continued until May 1922. Indeed, this campaign sought to use the GAA for cover during the early part of 1922. This was most evident when several of the Monaghan football team (who were also in the IRA) were arrested on their way to the Ulster final in mid-January 1922, and Sir James Craig’s Northern Ireland government alleged that the footballers’ main objective was to rescue some condemned prisoners from Derry Gaol. Two inter-county footballers, Matt Fitzpatrick of Fermanagh and Frank McCoy of Antrim (though an Armagh native), were among those killed as the conflict continued through the early part of 1922.

Patrick Burke of Cooraclare who died in March 1922 is also included here as the illnesses that caused his death – a hunger strike and hosing by guards at Wandsworth Prison leading to pneumonia and tuberculosis – occurred during the War of Independence.

By contrast, Seán Bulman, a member of St. David’s Hurling Club in Cork City, who died in April 1922, is not included here; the accidental discharge of a revolver that killed him occurred in the prelude to the Civil War and is thus deemed outside of scope. Also, those who were injured during the War of Independence and died in the years after 1922 are not listed here due to the need to draw a line in the chronology – notwithstanding the obvious role of the rigours of battle in their early deaths.

50 – or two-thirds – of the members listed below were killed during 1921. March 1921, four months after Bloody Sunday, was the month that witnessed the most deaths of members – a total of 13.

How many members died in total?

Counting the dead of the war is an even more complicated question. The combined death toll for civilians, IRA and Crown forces, 1919-21, is now accepted as approximately 2,325; and we can add another 230 related fatalities north of the border up to May 1922. This brings the overall figure for the period of study up to about 2,555.

At least 74 people who died in the War of Independence have been verified as members of the GAA. That is as precise a figure as can be proffered at the time of writing. It signifies that at least 1 in every 35 people killed was a sometime member of the GAA.

37 – or half – of these victims were affiliated in Munster counties, 15 in Ulster, another 15 in Leinster, and 7 in Connacht. 18 counties in all are represented on the list. Cork accounted for 14 of these fatalities, more than any other county; and Antrim (9) and Dublin (8) were most afflicted after that. These were the three counties that suffered the most casualties as a result of the war.

The vast majority of those identified were members of the IRA. This is hardly surprising, as the IRA recruited so heavily among nationalist youths, and many of the exchanges of the war took place in rural areas where the GAA was strongest.

Precisely how many of the GAA members killed were IRA members is a problematic question though. The status of several men on the list below is similarly vague. For example, the O’Reilly brothers who were taken from their homes in Killeavy, County Armagh, and shot dead in July 1921, were categorised in police reports as ‘Sinn Fein sympathisers’ but not … as ‘extremists’; yet they appear on IRA rolls of honour. Posthumous claims that a deceased man worked as IRA ‘intelligence’, such as was said of John McFadden of Belfast, are hard to prove or disprove. It is not the purpose of this research to determine whether or not they were pledged to fight, and its relevance would be a moot at times anyhow. Michael Hogan has been listed in places as an IRA volunteer in Grangemockler, but his death in Croke Park was sheer tragic misfortune on his part and nothing to do with his non-sporting alignments. Brothers Pat and Daniel Duffin, shot dead in their Belfast home in 1921, are buried together in a republican grave, though it is broadly accepted that Pat was not a Volunteer; irrespective of such questions, they were both mourned by GAA club colleagues then. Hence no attempt will be made to divert here to a headcount of IRA members here.

The overall fatality figures for GAA members are further skewed by a relative lack of information on non-republican deaths. As a general rule, press coverage of laypeople’s deaths was relatively scant during this turbulent period, and sports clubs did not figure as largely in reports or funeral rituals as they do today. Most civilians who died away from the sports-fields were not the subject of extensive obituaries and community ceremonies for decades thereafter. Meanwhile, alleged spies or informers done to death were deleted from official memory in dominant narratives.

There is also a big information vacuum in relation to the sporting backgrounds of the Crown Forces’ deceased. So far, none of the 900-plus policemen and British soldiers who died during the War of Independence have been identified as past members of GAA clubs. It seems barely plausible that there were none, however. Some RIC members and many soldiers in the 1910s had once been hurlers or Gaelic footballers; indeed, Thomas O’Brien, an Inniscarra hurler and IRA man who was executed at Cork Military Barracks in February 1921, had been with the South Irish Horse regiment in France until discharged in 1917. And the father of J. J. Fitzgerald, one of the policemen assassinated in Dublin on the morning of Bloody Sunday, had been Chairman of Cappawhite GAA Club in Tipperary. Alas for the researcher, so hostile were GAA-RIC hostilities from 1919 that no report of the killing of a policeman would mention that he ever played Gaelic games, and no GAA club would publicly claim him as a past member.

The list of 74 confirmed members could easily be extended if further information were to come to light, or if the criteria were widened to include participation in Gaelic sports more generally. Kevin Barry and Fr. Michael Griffin, both of whom died as martyrs in November 1920 and had GAA clubs named after them, had played hurling at Belvedere College and Garbally College respectively. It could also be extended if one were to widen the criteria of fatalities beyond physical violence to include accidents. Edward Nolan, a club player from County Wexford, died while swimming during an IRA training camp in August 1920, and is named on some republican rolls of honour; but as his death was tangential to violence of the conflict, it is not listed by O’Halpin and Ó Corráin or here.

Others who may be supposed to have been GAA members, but have not yet been verified as such by this research, include Michael John Kelleher, a 17-year-old who was shot dead while playing hurling with schoolboy friends at Knocknagree, along the Cork-Kerry border; and although present-day clubs are named after Jeremiah O’Mahony (Diarmuid Ó Mathúna) in Enniskeane and brothers Cornelius and Jeremiah Delany in Cork City (Delany Rovers), more substantial information about their sporting activity would be needed to verify that they were GAA members themselves.

The cause(s) of deaths hold some significance in terms of public memory. 25 of the 74 (or about a third) of the GAA members identified were IRA men shot by Crown forces – RIC, Auxiliaries and Black and Tans – during active combat. A much greater number of the GAA members killed were unarmed, however. Some 19 were visited at their houses and shot dead by Crown forces or loyalist gangs, mostly in nocturnal reprisal or sectarian attacks; several of these also involved torture and gruesome deaths, including the Loughnane brothers, Harry and Pat, of Beagh, Galway. Eight were formally executed republican prisoners. Five were killed while in detention or police custody; and another died later from resultant illness. Six were killed unprovoked on the streets or during sport. The others died as a result of a hunger strike in Cork (3); post-hunger strike illness (1); accidental killings among IRA men (4); and the deliberate IRA shooting of an alleged but disputed ‘spy’ – later exonerated on investigation. The guerrilla nature of the IRA military campaign also involved many ruthless killings of policemen, soldiers and innocent civilians, of course. But the brutal manner of deaths suffered by so many republican and GAA members during this war – rather than any part that some had in IRA assassinations – is the chief reason why such names have resounded in Gaelic games fixture-lists over the past century.

The Players and their Sporting Honours

The average age of those members who died was 27.5 years. The vast majority had been playing members during the years preceding the War of Independence, if not also during the war itself. Many of their lives were cut short before they would have reached their sporting prime.

At least 12 of the dead played at inter-county senior level – nine as footballers, and three as hurlers. The lone All-Ireland senior medallist among them was James Dalton of Limerick. He collected his Celtic cross with the Commercials football team that won the national title of 1896 – before many of the other GAA victims of 1919-22 (as listed below) were even born. Dalton later became an Irish lightweight boxing champion, trainer of the Limerick team that won the 1918 All-Ireland hurling title, and father to 11 children. Between these activities and his work, he still found time to join the IRA and become a battalion captain. He was shot dead by other IRA men in a very contentious incident of May 1920, it first being alleged that he was a spy, but later an external IRA investigation concluded that he was ‘completely clear’ of any such activity.

Only one other player counted here is known to have played in an All-Ireland senior final – Patrick Hennessy, corner-back for Clare in the 1917 All-Ireland SFC defeat to Wexford. Just one man listed has been identified as a provincial senior hurling winner – John (Seán) Gaynor with Antrim hurlers in 1913. Michael Hogan and Jackie Brett played in Tipperary’s Munster SFC early round games of 1920, but died before Tipperary went on to win the Munster and All-Ireland SFC titles of that year. Three of the northerners who died had played in the 1920 Ulster SFC, including Patrick Loughran of Tyrone, who made his inter-county debut in May and was killed a month later. Nicholas Mullins of Kilkenny had also played in the 1913 All-Ireland JHC final.

At least five of the other players had won senior county championship medals with their clubs, and three more had won adult championships at another grade. Eight of the players are reported to have been captains of their club teams – an unusually high proportion, reflective of a wider pattern that young men who led teams on the field tended to come to the fore in military ranks.

Given that so many of the dead were from rural areas, it is hardly surprising that about one third of them worked on the land – at least 17 were farmers or farmers’ sons, and another eight were agricultural labourers. There were also five labourers, two blacksmiths, two publicans, and an array of other working-class employees. Five sometime local councillors were also among the dead, and there were a mere handful of university graduates or students.

Well-known Cork Officials who were lost

Several leading GAA officials in Cork departed the scene due to the War of Independence. James Down, who had been Chairman of Cork County Board, 1915-16, was the first civilian who died in the conflict. Aged 35, he was an assistant surveyor for the county council, and he died ten days after a drunken assault by soldiers on the street as he returned from a county board meeting at night. Over two years later, in May 1921, John P. O’Connell, President of the Cobh GAA Club, was killed on another street. O’Connell was shot dead by a soldier, who appeared to mistake him for his local namesake, the leader of the Volunteers in Cobh. The club ground, Páirc Uí Chonaill, was named in his memory in 1964.

The case of another Cork official, Tom Irwin, is illustrative of how some leading GAA figures were also lost permanently as a result of the conflict, even if not physically injured. Irwin was synonymous with Gaelic games in Cork for three decades, having become the only person who played in and refereed All-Ireland senior finals in both hurling and football finals, and serving as the county board secretary for almost two decades from 1901. He had survived two electoral attempts to unseat him as secretary during an otherwise successful republican takeover of the board in 1909-10. One day in May 1920, he was cycling along the road when he happened upon a robbery, and identified one of the perpetrators as a relative of an IRA member. Upon receiving a threatening message shortly after, he decided to flee the city – to South Africa, from which he never returned, dying there in 1956.

Last in order but certainly not least, Tadhg Barry was a further well-known Cork GAA official who perished. He was a club official, secretary of a Cork Saturday hurling league, county board member, and a press columnist as ‘An Ciotóg’. Perhaps his greatest legacy to Gaelic sports was writing Hurling and How to Play It, a landmark manual in 1916. By then he was also a leading councillor and Volunteer, and he went on to join the IRA. At the end of a tumultuous 1920 in Cork, Barry was among those arrested and taken to Ballykinlar Internment Camp, County Down. There he was shot dead by a sentry in November 1921, a few weeks before prisoners were released. As such his death was one of the last of the War of the Independence south of the border.

Commemorations of the dead by GAA Units

Tadhg Barry is commemorated today in the name of the GAA ground at Ballykinlar, where he was killed; but not in a similar manner in Cork. Memory of Alderman Barry has dwindled somewhat, relative to tragic contemporaries, over a century. Terence MacSwiney and Tomás MacCurtain, the two martyred Cork mayors of 1920, neither of whom was known to be a GAA member, are more honoured in the Gaelic sports tapestry due to their enduring national profile; they are celebrated in the names of clubs in Coatbridge (Scotland) and London respectively today (and inspired a sprinkling of like-named but now-defunct teams in Ireland previously), and their images were emblazoned on a Cork County Board commemorative geansaí in 2020. By contrast, Michael Fitzgerald and Patrick Joseph Murphy, two other GAA members who died on hunger strike in Cork in October 1920, are much less remembered, apart from Fitzgerald Park, Fermoy. Such are the vagaries of the GAA’s culture of nomenclature.

In a similar manner, the 13 GAA clubs – nine in Ireland, two in England, one in Scotland and one in the USA – that bear the names of 1919-21 martyrs today are scant reflection of Gaelic games involvement by these men. Kevin Barry and Seán Treacy have been the most popularly remembered. Today, there are 2 clubs named after Barry – in Derrylaughan, Tyrone, and Philadelphia – but a string of now-defunct clubs were also dedicated to him in seven other counties, five of them in Ulster. Treacy continues to have three hurling clubs named after him – in his native west Tipperary, Lurgan (County Armagh), and London – but the man himself was not renowned as a Gaelic games aficionado. Tramore’s Micheál Mac Craith club (and ground), and Páirc Uí Bhriain in Dunhill, both of County Waterford, and Charlie Hurley Park in Bandon, are exceptions to the general rule, in being named after martyrs who did play Gaelic games for clubs in the same local area.

There are at least 12 club grounds, all in Munster and Ulster, dedicated to victims of the Anglo-Irish conflict. Two of these enshrine incidents in which Crown forces inflicted several casualties in 1921. Clonmult Memorial Park in Midleton, opened in 1962, recognises the local ambush that resulted in 14 IRA deaths, plus six suspected informers and two ‘Black and Tans’ members. Memorial Park, Killeavy, originated as a tribute to the aforementioned O’Reilly brothers, plus Peter McGennity and John Quinn – four local men who were taken from their beds and shot dead on the roadside on one night in July 1921. The memorial committee, which was separate from the GAA and drew its funds largely from Irish expatriates in New York, decided to widen the dedication, however. The arch above the entrance gates, ordered in 1956, reads, chun buan chuimhne orthu sin a throid ar son saoirse na hÉireann – ‘to commemorate those who fought for Ireland’s freedom’. This was apparently a conscious decision to move the usual focus on memorialising those who died to those who ‘fought’, and as such it reflected the crescendo of republican sentiment in the mid-1950s.

Timing played a big part in determining the choice of names by GAA units. Almost all of the 20 Gaelic clubs and grounds in Ireland named after War of Independence dead were dedicated within a three-decade period, between 1944 and 1977. There is also the Seán Connolly Cup – first presented in 1960 – for the Longford Senior Football Championship. Several other clubs were named after martyrs of this period in the 1920s-30s, but the only one of these left today is Patrick Moran’s (now Geraldines-Patrick Moran) in Cornelscourt, south Dublin. Since the opening of the (multi-sports) Captain Tim Madigan Memorial Park, Shanagolden, in 1977, the only such names given to Gaelic grounds have been Shanahan-McNamara Park in Doonbeg (1984) and Michael Hogan Community Sportsfield in Grangemockler (2009). On the other hand, the GAA club in Rathkeale, which had been known as ‘St Mary’s-Seán Finn’s’ for at least 40 years, dropped this title in 2015. While there has been a long-term movement away from new republican nomenclature, a spate of efforts by teams to put centennial martyrs’ images on their geansaithe in recent years prompted the introduction of new regulations on jersey designs.

Turning full circle back to the naming of the Hogan Stand in 1925, the GAA at central level named Corn Michael Hogan as a prize for the Celtic Challenge under-17 hurling competition from 2016. This time, however, the association paid homage to other victims of Bloody Sunday also – the other five trophies for the various grades of this inter-county championship are named after John Scott, Michael Feery, Tom Hogan, William Robinson and Jerome O’Leary.

Caveat

The list featured below is but an initial attempt to quantify the loss of lives from GAA ranks during this pivotal period in Irish history. It does not purport to be a final and definite list of casualties, however. Due to the complexities of tracing so many personal stories of a century ago, it is to be expected that some names have been overlooked.

Anyone who can identify any other member(s) of the GAA who was killed during the War of Independence is invited to submit the relevant evidence to history@gaa.ie

Once the credentials are verified, the list can be revised here.

Sources

This list and related information has been compiled from diverse sources, too many to name and footnote here. They include numerous daily and provincial newspapers, including those available on online newspaper archives. The Dead of the Irish Revolution has proven to be a crucial reference book. ‘Cork’s War of Independence Fatality Register’ website, compiled by Dr. Andy Bielenberg and Prof. James S. Donnelly, contains much helpful detail. Also very useful have been a wide range of club and county histories of the GAA, and a number of republican commemorative booklets published over the decades. As far as possible all recorded deaths have been corroborated by contemporary or primary sources.

Acknowledgements:

Among those who assisted with this research were Cormac Ó Comhraí, Eoin Shanahan, Tomás Mac Conmara, Colm Hayes, Pádraig Ó Ruairc, Liam Rabbitte, Seán Ó Súilleabháin, Oliver McDonald, Tom Hunt, Dominic Williams, Tony Sheehan, Dan Cronin, Tom Lyons, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Dónal Whooley, Dolores Crowley, Denis O’Brien, Walter Lawler, Liam Ó Donnchú, Damian White, Dr Richard McElligott, Michael Foley, Dr William Murphy, Cian Murphy and the other members of Coiste na Staire agus na gCuimhneachán CLG.

Dr Dónal McAnallen is Library and Archives Manager at National Museums NI. He is a member of CLG Naomh Pádraig, An Eaglais, and the national History & Commemorations Committee.

Appendix – Members of the GAA who died in the War of Independence

ULAIDH

DATE OF DEATH NAME CLUB(S) AGE SPORTING DETAILS

Aontroim

26/09/1920 Edward Trodden O'Neill Crowley's, Belfast 45 club hurler

26/09/1920 John Gaynor O’Connell's (ex-Mitchel's) 24 1913 Ulster SHC medallist

26/09/1920 John McFadden O’Connell's (ex-Brian Óg) 24 club hurler

23/04/1921 Daniel Duffin O’Donovan Rossa’s (ex-St Gall’s) 24 club player

23/04/1921 Patrick Duffin O’Donovan Rossa’s 28 club member

12/06/1921 Alex McBride Carey Faughs 30 club hurler

17/07/1921 Patrick McCarry Care Faughs 45 club hurler

15/08/1921 Fred Fox O'Donovan Rossa's 19 club hurler and footballer

14/02/1922 Frank McCoy O’Rahilly’s, Belfast 26 club and county footballer

Ard Mhacha

11/01/1921 John Doran Camlough (Pearse Brothers) 26 club official

06/07/1921 John O'Reilly Killeavy 24 played in 1917 & 1920 Ulster SFC finals

06/07/1921 Thomas O'Reilly Killeavy 21 club footballer

An Dún

1/07/1921 William J. Hickey St. Colman's HC, Newry 28 club member

Fear Manach

11/02/1922 Matt Fitzpatrick Newtownbutler (ex-Wattlebridge) 25 played in Ulster SFC, 1916-20; county SFC medallist, 1919-20; inter-county referee

Tír Eoghain

18/06/1920 Patrick Loughran Dungannon (Thomas Clarke's) 28 played in 1920 Ulster SFC

CONNACHT

Gaillimh

26/11/1920 Harry Loughnane Beagh 22 club hurler

26/11/1920 Pat Loughnane Beagh n/a club hurler

03/01/1921 Michael Mullin Mountbellew (Emmet’s) 31 club and county footballer

20/02/1921 John Geoghegan Maigh Cuilinn 28 club footballer and hurler; won West Galway SFC

30/06/1921 Bill Freaney Derrydonnell 25 club hurler

Liatroim

11/03/1921 Joseph Beirne Ballinamore 27 County SFC medallist, 1913

Ros Comáin

14/09/1920 Michael Glavey (n/a; Ballinlough area) 36 athlete in GAA competitions

LAIGHIN

Baile Átha Cliath

27/10/1920 John Sherlock (n/a; Skerries area) 22 club member

21/11/1920 Joe Traynor Young Emmet's 20 club footballer

14/03/1921 Patrick Moran Dunleary Commercials 33 club footballer & founder member

14/03/1921 Bernard Ryan (n/a; Phibsborough area) 20 club footballer

25/05/1921 Daniel Head Emeralds 17 club footballer

25/05/1921 Edward Dorins St Joseph's, East Wall 22 club member

20/04/1921 Peter White (n/a; Balbriggan area) 32 club member

12/07/1921 Margaret Keogh Croke Ladies Hurling Club 19 club camogie player

Cill Chainnigh

21/02/1921 Thomas Hennessy Threecastles 30 club member

04/03/1921 Michael Dermody Dicksboro 24 club hurler

18/03/1921 Patrick Walsh Glory Rovers / Dunnamaggin 34 club hurler, offical & referee

18/06/1921 Seán Hartley Catholic Young Men's Society 22 club & county footballer

18/06/1921 Nicholas Mullins Chapelhill (Thomastown) 27 1913 All-Ireland JHC finalist

Longfort

22/03/1921 Seán Connolly Clonbroney Camlin Rovers 31 county SFC medallist, 1919

Lú

09/02/1921 Thomas Halpin John Mitchel HC, Drogheda 26 county JHC medallist, 1918

MUMHA

Ciarraí

11/05/1920 Michael Nolan Kilmoyley 25 club secretary

21/03/1921 Jim Bailey Ballymacelligott 21 club footballer

24/03/1921 William McCarthy Lixnaw 25 club hurler

An Clár

18/04/1920 John Breen Kilmihil 22 club member

14/04/1920 Paddy Hennessy Milltown-Malbay 30 1917 All-Ireland SFC finalist

22/12/1920 Willie Shanahan Bealaha 26 club footballer

22/12/1920 Michael McNamara Bealaha 28 club footballer

31/05/1921 Patrick White Meelick 33 county IHC medallist, 1917

07/03/1922 Patrick 'Sonny' Burke Cooraclare 21 club footballer and athlete

Corcaigh

11/02/1919 James N. Down Canovee 35 county chairman, 1915-16

17/10/1920 Michael Fitzgerald Fermoy 39 club footballer

25/10/1920 Patrick Joseph Murphy St. Finbarr’s 24 club hurler

04/02/1921 Patrick Crowley Kilbrittain 26 club hurler

20/02/1921 John Joseph Joyce UCC 22 played in Fitzgibbon Cup

28/02/1921 Thomas O'Brien Inniscarra 21 club hurler

28/02/1921 Daniel O'Callaghan Inniscarra 21 club hurler

28/02/1921 John Lyons Aghabullogue 26 club hurler

19/03/1921 Charlie Hurley Kilbrittain 29 club hurler

22/03/1921 James Barrett Aghabullogue 40 captained club to 2 Mid Cork SFCs

28/04/1921 Patrick O'Sullivan Cobh & Collegians (UCC) 22 club player

11/05/1921 Cornelius (Con) Murphy (n/a; Timoleague area) 25 handball medals; camogie mentor

29/05/1921 John P. O'Connell Cobh 59 club official (president)

15/11/1921 Tadhg Barry Kinsale (ex-St Vincent’s & Sunday’s Well) 39 club official, referee

Luimneach

15/05/1920 James Dalton Limerick Commercials 49 1896 All-Ireland SFC winner

28/12/1920 Tim Madigan O'Rahilly's, (Shanagolden) 23 club footballer

07/03/1921 George Clancy Catholic University Medical School HC / Geraldines (BÁC) 42 club member

30/03/1921 Seán Finn (n/a; Rathkeale area) 21 club footballer and hurler

02/05/1921 Patrick Casey Ballybricken & Fedamore / St. Finbarr's, Cork 25 club hurler

10/05/1921 Michael O'Shea Granagh 34 county JHC-winning captain, 1916

Port Láirge

08/01/1921 Michael McGrath Ballytruckle 25 club footballer

08/01/1921 Tom O'Brien Dunhill & Ballyduff 24 club hurler and footballer

19/03/1921 Patrick Keating Kilrossanty 25 county SFC-winning captain, 1919

Tiobraid Árann

21/11/1920 Michael Hogan Grangemockler 24 county footballer killed on Bloody Sunday

17/12/1920 Michael Edmonds Tipp. Town (O'Leary's) 32 county SFC-winning captain, 1910; club treasurer

28/02/1921 Seán Allen Tipp. Town (O’Leary’s) 24 club hurler

06/04/1921 Jackie Brett Mullinahone 19 county footballer, played on Bloody Sunday

13/05/1921 Seán Quinn Mullinahone 25 2 county SFC medals