| Code: | Hurling |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Jim Dermody | |
| Irish: | Séamus Ó Diarmada |
| County: | Kilkenny |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Threecastles Tullaroan |
| Clposition: | Half-back |
| Clcounty: | 1 |
| Counties: | Kilkenny |
| Icposition: | Goalkeeper |
| Icyears: | 1922-1934 |
| Icprovince: | 4 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nhl: | 1 |
| Icupdate: | 20:17, 29 May 2018 |
| Birth Place: | Three Castles, County Kilkenny, Ireland |
| Birth Date: | 1 September 1898 |
| Death Place: | Liverpool, England |
James Dermody (1 September 1898 – 9 February 1975) was an Irish hurler. His league and championship career as a goalkeeper with the Kilkenny senior team lasted several years between 1922 and 1934.[1]
Born in Three Castles, County Kilkenny, Dermody first played hurling with the local Threecastles club. After a period playing for the Kilkenny club in New York, he returned to Ireland and joined the Tullaroan club with whom he won a county championship medal in 1930.
Dermody first played for Kilkenny as a replacement for the absent Mark McDonald in 1922. He lined out for the team in the earlier rounds of the championship, winning a Leinster medal, but missed the subsequent All-Ireland victory. After almost a decade away from the inter-county scene, Dermody returned as first-choice Kilkenny goalkeeper in 1931. Over the course of the following four seasons he won two All-Ireland medals and three further Leinster medals.
As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Dermody won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1932, as captain, and 1933. He had earlier represented the United States team in the 1928 Tailteann Games.
