Code: | Hurling |
Derry Beckett | |
Irish: | Doire Beicéid |
Fullname: | Derry Beckett |
Birth Date: | 24 December 1919 |
Birth Place: | Glanmire, County Cork, Ireland |
Death Date: | August 1959 |
Death Place: | Macclesfield, England |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 7 |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Sarsfields / Glanmire St Finbarr's UCC |
Clcountyh: | 0 |
Clcountyf: | 0 |
Counties: | Cork (football) Cork (hurling) |
Icpositionh: | Left corner-forward |
Icpositionf: | Left corner-forward |
Icyears: | 1945-1947 1941-1946 |
Icapps(Points): | 4 (2-10) 5 (6-3) |
Icprovincef: | 1 |
Icprovinceh: | 1 |
Icallirelandh: | 1 |
Icallirelandf: | 1 |
Nhl: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Jeremiah Beckett (24 December 1919 – August 1959) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who played left corner-forward for the Cork senior teams.
Beckett joined the hurling team during the 1941 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen in both codes until his retirement after the 1947 football championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and one Munster medal in hurling as well as one All-Ireland medal and one Munster medal in football. Beckett is one of only eighteen dual players to have won All-Ireland medals in both codes.[1]
At club level Beckett played his club hurling and football with a range of clubs including Sarsfields, Glanmire, St Finbarr's and UCC.