1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Explained

Year:	1888
Team:	Not played
Leinster:	Kilkenny
Munster:	Tipperary
Ulster:	Monaghan
Connacht:	Not played
Next:	1889

The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.^[1]

The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played.^[2]

Results

Leinster

--------Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered.--------------------

Munster

----Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players.--------

Ulster

Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed.----

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• No All Ireland series due to US tour.

Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The 1888 American Invasion Tour . 2011-07-02 . https://archive.today/20120802095440/http://www.crokepark.ie/GAA-Museum/GAA-Archive/Articles-on-the-history-of-the-GAA/The-1888-American-Invasion-Tour . 2012-08-02 . dead .
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx . 2011-07-16 . dead .