1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Explained

Year:	1890
Team:	Cork
Titles:	1st
Team2:	Wexford
Leinster:	Wexford
Munster:	Cork
Ulster:	Armagh
Connacht:	Galway
Next:	1891

The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Previous years All Ireland champions Tipperary didn't take part in the Munster championship cancelled game against Clare. Cork were the champions.^[1] ^[2]

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.

Munster Championship

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Leinster Championship

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Ulster Championship

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All-Ireland Championship

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See main article: 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.

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.

Notes and References

Web site: FOOTBALL RESULTS 1887 - 1910 . 2011-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030258/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html . 2012-03-21 . dead .
Web site: All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010 . 2011-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx . 2011-07-16 . dead .
Web site: Laune Ranger 1890 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200821031712/http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1056 . 21 August 2020 . 3 February 2014 . dead.