1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship April 2022 1888 Not played Kilkenny Tipperary Monaghan Not played 1887 1889 The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.http://www.crokepark.ie/GAA-Museum/GAA-Archive/Articles-on-the-history-of-the-GAA/The-1888-American-Invasion-Tour The 1888 American Invasion Tour 2011-07-02 https://archive.today/20120802095440/http://www.crokepark.ie/GAA-Museum/GAA-Archive/Articles-on-the-history-of-the-GAA/The-1888-American-Invasion-Tour 2012-08-02 dead The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played.All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010 http://www.hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx 2011-07-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx 2011-07-16 dead Results Leinster 3 June 1888Quarter-final Dublin 1–6 – 0–1 Kildare Donnybrook JJ Reilly 10 June 1888Quarter-final Kilkenny 1–3 – 0–0 Queen's County Maryborough 10,000 GF Moore 1 July 1888Quarter-final Wicklow 0–2 – 0–1 Wexford Donnybrook 8,000 JJ Reilly Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered. 19 August 1888Quarter-final replay Wicklow 1–3 – 0–2 Wexford Clonskeagh 5,000 JP Cox 19 August 1888Quarter-final Louth 2–4 – 0–0 Meath Bryanstown JJ O'Reilly 2 September 1888Semi-final Kilkenny 2–1 – 0–3 Louth Clonskeagh JJ Cullen 2 September 1888Semi-final Wexford 0–4 – 0–3 Dublin Clonskeagh T Harrington 23 September 1888Final Kilkenny 1–4 – 0–2 Wexford New Ross Munster 27 May 1888Quarter-final Tipperary 0–2 – 0–2 Cork Buttevant 12,000 T.O'Riordan 8 July 1888Semi-final Clare 1–3 – 1–0 Limerick Birdhill J Callinan Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players. 22 July 1888Semi-final Tipperary 0–3 – 0–1 Waterford Clonmel T Harrington 10 November 1888Final Tipperary w/o – scr. Limerick Pallasgreen Ulster 19 August 1888Final Monaghan 0–2 – 0–2 Cavan Drogheda Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed. 9 September 1888Final Replay Monaghan 0–3 – 0–0 Cavan Bryanstown, County Meath Statistics Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay. Miscellaneous No All-Ireland series due to US tour. References