1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Explained

Year:	1898
Team:	Dublin
Titles:	5th
Team2:	Waterford
Leinster:	Dublin
Munster:	Waterford
Ulster:	Not played
Connacht:	Not played
Next:	1899

The 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Results

Leinster

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Dublin were awarded the game.

Munster

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All-Ireland final

See main article: 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• Waterford won their only ever Munster final.
• Waterford were represented by Erin's Hope with a few representatives from Lismore Blackwater Ramblers.
• Limerick and Clare were thrown out because they refused to play their tie at Tipperary.^[4]
• It was Dublin's second two in a row as All Ireland champions.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Football Results 1887 - 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA . 2011-07-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030258/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html . 2012-03-21 . dead .
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-07-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx . 2011-07-16 . dead .
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-09-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928061017/http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf . 2011-09-28 .
4. "Gaelic Notes", Evening Herald, 23 September 1899, p.7