1937 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:

• The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to the All-Ireland final.
• The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to a lone All-Ireland semi-final.
• Galway, a team who faced no competition in the Connacht Championship, entered the championship at the All-Ireland semi-final stage where they played the Leinster champions.
• There were no representatives from the Ulster Championship in the All-Ireland series.

Results

[[Leinster Senior Hurling Championship]]

[[Munster Senior Hurling Championship]]

First round

Semi-finals

Final

[[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship]]

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• Westmeath arguably enjoy their best ever season of championship hurling. Three successive victories allowed them to qualify for their first, and to date their only, Leinster decider.
• That All-Ireland final was the first to be played outside of Croke Park and, indeed, Dublin for thirty years. A builders' strike delayed the construction of the Cusack Stand in Croke Park meaning an alternative venue had to be found and the new FitzGerald Stadium in Killarney was chosen.

Sources

• Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
• Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).

References

References

1. "All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Roll of Honour". The GAA website.
2. Flanagan, Paddy. (5 May 2009). "Paddy Flanagan recalls some of the highlights". Westmeath Examiner.
3. O'Connor, Jason. (7 September 2007). "The day Killarney hosted the All-Ireland hurling final". The Kerryman.