1923 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Pre-game

The Irish Civil War cast a shadow on the match — Kerry initially considered refusing to play in protest at the imprisonment of County Board chairman and republican Austin Stack. The Kerry team played a selection match between pro- and anti-Treaty players.

Match

Summary

Dublin won the final by two points, with a goal by P. J. Kirwan. Kerry had led 1–2 to 0–1 at half-time, with a goal from Brosnan, but failed to score again in the game.

Joe Stynes, granduncle of Australian rules footballer Jim Stynes, played on the winning Dublin team that day.

It was the third of three All-Ireland SFC titles won by Dublin in the 1920s, which made them joint "team of the decade" with Kerry, also winner of three.

Details

Dublin

• 1 Johnny McDonnell
• 2 Jack O'Reilly
• 3 Paddy McDonnell (c)
• 4 John Murphy
• 5 Joe Norris
• 6 Joe Synnott
• 7 Paddy Carey
• 8 Paddy Kirwan
• 9 Joe Stynes
• 10 Frank Burke
• 11 John Synnott
• 12 Martin Shanahan
• 13 Jack Sherlock
• 14 P. O'Beirne
• 15 Larry Stanley

Kerry

• 1 Jack Sheehy (goal)
• 2 Phil O'Sullivan (c)
• 3 Joe Barrett
• 4 Eugene Moriarty
• 5 John Russell
• 6 Toss Kelleher
• 7 Jerry Moriarty
• 8 Con Brosnan
• 9 Pat McKenna
• 10 John Ryan
• 11 Redmond Prendiville
• 12 J. J. Sheehy
• 13 John Bailey
• 14 Jimmy Bailey
• 15 Bill Landers

;Subs : 16 Denis O'Donoghue : 17 Jack McCarthy : 18 Moss Galvin : 19 Bob Stack : 20 Michael Murphy : 21 Tom O'Mahony : 22 Denis Hurley

Post-match

The 1923 final marked the end of the initial era of the Dublin–Kerry Gaelic football rivalry. Dublin would not beat Kerry in the championship again until the 1976 final. An attendance of 25,000 people was reported at the 1923 final. Dublin would not win another All-Ireland SFC title until 1942, the county's 19-year barren spell rivalled only by their team of the late 1990s and 2000s.

References

References

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