1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship April 2022 1889 Tipperary 1st Gil Cavanagh Laois Laois Tipperary Not played Not played 1888 1890 The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. 1887 All Ireland champions Limerick were not part of the Munster championship. Tipperary were the champions. Format Only two provincial championship were played: Leinster and Munster. The winners met in the All-Ireland final. Representative clubs From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county. County Club Cork Midleton Kerry Laune Rangers Louth Newtown Blues Laois (Queen's County) Maryborough Tipperary Bohercrowe Results Leinster 25 August 1889Quarter-final Louth 2–7 – 0–6 Dublin Drogheda 8,000 PR Cleary 15 September 1889Semi-final Kilkenny w/o – scr. Louth Dublin 15 September 1889Semi-final Wicklow w/o – scr. Laois Dublin 15 September 1889Final Wicklow 1–7 – 1–4 Louth Dublin The Wicklow–Laois game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well. 13 October 1889Semi-final, Refixed Laois 0–9 – 0–4 Wicklow Inchicore 2,000 P Brown 13 October 1889Final, Refixed Mulligan Fr. John The GAA in Louth – An Historical Record Louth GAA 1984 35–36 Laois 0–3 – 0–2 Louth Inchicore 2,000 JJ Reilly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18192021 1 Jack Rooney (gk)2 James Mooney (c)3 Eugene Clifford4 James Kelly5 Patrick Byrne6 F. Farrell7 Bernard Woods8 Joe Carroll9 James McCann10 John Hughes11 Peter Allen12 Peter Hickey13 J. Dillon14 Robert Allen15 Francis Carroll16 Nick Tiernan17 Paddy Rooney18 Joe Connor19 Pat Finegan20 Thomas Heaney21 Jack Louth Munster 29 March 1889Quarter-final Tipperary w/o – scr. Clare 29 March 1889Semi-final Tipperary W – L Waterford 28 July 1889Semi-final Cork 0–2 – 0–1 Kerry Mallow T. R. Cleary 6 October 1889Final Tipperary 1–2 – 0–3 Cork Mallow E Moynihan Final 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final 20 October 1889 Tipperary 3–6 – 0–0 Laois Inchicore 1,500 M. O'Driscoll Statistics Tipperary win the first All-Ireland title. References All-Ireland Senior Football Championship