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County:
  
Cork

Colours:
  
Green and Gold

Founded
  
1883

Nickname:
  
The Rockies

Hurling:
  
3

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Grounds
  
Church Road, Blackrock, Cork

Blackrock National Hurling Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club located on the southside of Cork City, Ireland. The club was founded in 1883 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling. No club in Cork holds more Senior County Hurling titles or All-Ireland Club Championships. The club is widely known as 'The Rockies'.

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History

In a city that boasts three of hurling's most notable clubs, Blackrock, on the south side of Cork City, has seen some considerable success. Blackrock Hurling Club was officially founded in 1883, one year before the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association itself. It is therefore the oldest club in Cork. Until 1888 the club was known as Cork Nationals, when it changed its name to National Hurling Club of Blackrock, and later in the same year to Blackrock National Hurling Club.

Blackrock won eight of the first nine Cork Senior Hurling Championship titles and, in the early years of the All-Ireland Championship when the winning clubs represented the county, subsequently claimed the All-Ireland titles for Cork in 1893 and 1894. Blackrock once again claimed the All-Ireland hurling title for Cork in 1903 and were such a dominant force in Cork hurling that up until the 1930s the Blackrock club selected the county team.

Blackrock's dominance in Cork hurling has been challenged by Glen Rovers and St. Finbarr's, however, Blackrock have always been the leading club on the Roll of Honour, helped in no small part by being longer established than its main rivals. . The team enjoyed a successful spell in the 1970s winning All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship titles in 1972, 1974 and 1979, along with five Munster titles in the same decade.

In the last six years, Blackrock have won five Under 16 Premier Juvenile Cork County Championships (2008-2013), four of the last five Premier Minor Cork County Championships (2009, 2011 & 2012, 2013) and the 2012 Under 21 Cork County Championship. The challenge remains to convert this underage success into renewed Senior Championship competitiveness. The club has now gone twelve years without tasting senior glory.

Honours

  • All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1893, 1894, 1903, 1925, 1931
  • All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships: 3
  • 1972, 1974, 1979
  • Munster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979
  • Cork Senior Hurling Championships: 32
  • 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1956, 1961, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1999, 2001, 2002
  • Cork Junior Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1895, 1901, 1910, 1931, 1947
  • Cork Under-21 Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1976, 1977, 2012, 2014, 2015
  • Cork Minor Hurling Championships: 11
  • 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1994, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Cork City Junior Hurling Championships: 7
  • 1931, 1947, 1949, 1970, 1973, 2003, 2013
  • Croke Cup Winners: 3
  • 1903, 1910, 1913
  • Féile na nGael All Ireland Champions: 1
  • 1971

    • Famous Hurlers

    This is a list of notable hurlers who have played for Blackrock. Generally, this means players that have enjoyed much success with the club or have played for the Cork senior hurling team.

    Club Ballads

    The club has two ballads written in its honour. "We'll Bring Glory Home" was written by Kenny O'Connell in 1998 and is written about Blackrock Hurling Club and its sister club St. Michael's GAA Football Club. "The Boys of Blackrock" is a much older ballad.

    "We'll Bring Glory Home"

    "The Boys of Blackrock"

    References

    Blackrock GAA Wikipedia
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