100 Years Of Team Ireland Archives - Page 3 of 3

The First Lady Of Irish Track | Melbourne 1956

Maeve Kyle (nee Shankey), who turned 95 last October, was born in Kilkenny and, like her former PE teacher in Alexandra College (Dorothy Dermody), also made Irish Olympic history. She was the only woman on an 18-strong Irish team in Melbourne 1956 and the first to represent Ireland in Olympic track and field in Melbourne [...]

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A woman who rarely retreated | London 1948

100 Years Of Team Ireland / Kevin

Dorothy ‘Tommy’ Dermody, the only female athlete on the 89-strong Irish team at the 1948 Olympic Games, was an extraordinary sporting pioneer. Born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary in 1909 (her family later moved to Kilmacanogue, in Wicklow) she often accompanied her father, a ships’ captain, on his travels. As he was only allowed one female

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Track’s Golden Hour | Los Angeles 1932

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News / Kevin

A plaque at the fifth tee of Ballybunion Golf Club’s Old Course marks two weeks in 1932 when a four-man Irish Olympic track team trained there before the LA Games and forged friendships for life. Bob Tisdall won the 400m hurdles in Los Angeles and, just 10 minutes later, Cork’s Dr Pat O’Callaghan retained the

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When Independence and Sport Collided | Paris 1924

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News / Kevin

Jack B Yeat’s painting ‘The Liffey Swim’ famously won Ireland’s first Olympic medal (silver) in Paris 1924 when Art, broken down into five categories (painting, literature, music, sculpture and architecture, all on a sporting theme) was an official Olympic event from 1910 to 1948. The first Liffey Swim took place in 1920, his painting was

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The First Lady Of Irish Track | Melbourne 1956

A woman who rarely retreated | London 1948

Track’s Golden Hour | Los Angeles 1932

When Independence and Sport Collided | Paris 1924

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A woman who rarely retreated | London 1948

Track’s Golden Hour | Los Angeles 1932

When Independence and Sport Collided | Paris 1924

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