| Code: | Hurling |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Jim McCarthy | |
| Irish: | Séamus Mac Carthaigh |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 11 |
| Occupation: | Medical doctor |
| County: | Limerick |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Feenagh |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | University College Dublin |
| Fitz: | 1 |
| Counties: | Limerick |
| Icposition: | Right corner-back |
| Icyears: | 1935-1943 |
| Icprovince: | 2 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nhl: | 3 |
| Birth Date: | 1917 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Feenagh, County Limerick, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Merrion Road, Dublin, Ireland |
James McCarthy (15 December 1917 – 12 April 1982) was an Irish hurler. His career included two All-Ireland Championship success with the Limerick senior hurling team.[1]
McCarthy first played hurling for the Feenagh junior team as an 11-year-old before gaining further experience as a boarder at Rockwell College. Here he lined out in back-to-back Harty Cup finals in 1934 and 1935 before winning an All-Ireland medal as part of a star-studded Munster Colleges team that also featured Jack Lynch, John Keane and Connie Buckley. As a medical student at University College Dublin, McCarthy was involved in several Fitzgibbon Cup campaigns and claimed a winners' medal in 1941. After lining out at midfield in the early part of his career he switched to being a goalkeeper on the Limerick junior team that won the 1935 All-Ireland Junior Championship. McCarthy's performances at junior level earned at immediate call-up to the Limerick senior team with whom he won National League, Munster and All-Ireland honours in his debut season in 1936. He won a further two National League medals over the course of the following two seasons before winning a Limerick Junior Championship with Feenagh in 1938. McCarthy won a second set of Munster and All-Ireland medals as a full member of the starting fifteen in 1940. He also earned inclusion on the Munster inter-provincial team and won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1942 and 1943.