Date 20 October 1889 Attendance 1,500 | Venue Inchicore, Dublin | |
Event 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||
The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the second All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Tipperary were the winners.
The Queens County (Laois) team that lost to Tipperary were from the Portlaoise club.
Gaelic football was considered to be "the work of the devil" at this time.
It was Tipperary's first All-Ireland football title: they would win three more in 1895, 1900 and 1920. Football has since gone by the way side in the county, with hurling now being more prominent.
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1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA