Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic Football |
Jerry Beckett | |
Irish: | Diarmaid Beicéid |
Occupation: | National school teacher |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Lees |
Clcounty: | 5 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Forward |
Icyears: | 1907-1917 |
Icapps(Points): | 15 (1-02) |
Icprovince: | 2 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Icupdate: | 23:20, 10 April 2012 |
Birth Date: | 1886 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Cromane, County Kerry, Ireland |
Death Place: | Glanmire, County Kerry, Ireland |
Jeremiah Alphonsus Beckett (4 June 1886 – 30 May 1943), better known as Jerry Beckett, was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a forward for the Cork senior team.
Beckett made his first appearance for the team during the 1907 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen for the following ten years. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and two Munster medals.[1]
At club level Beckett was a multiple county senior championship medal winner with Lees.
Beckett's son, Derry, was a dual All-Ireland medal winner with Cork in the 1940s.[2]