1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

The 1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 32nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kildare Galway
2–5
(11)		 0–1
(1)
Date28 September 1919
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePat Dunphy (Laois)[1]
Attendance32,000

Wexford were the reigning champions, having completed a first senior four-in-a-row in 1918. However, Wexford did not qualify for the 1919 final as they were knocked out in the semi-final of that year's Leinster Senior Football Championship.[2]

Kildare won an extremely one-sided final, with goals from Frank "Joyce" Conlan and Jim O'Connor.[3]

This was Galway's first appearance in an All-Ireland football final. They would not win the All-Ireland football title until 1925, having also been beaten in the final of 1922.[4]

References
  1. O'Connell, Cian (9 December 2016). "1916 All Ireland referees remembered".
  2. Moran, Seán (11 September 2019). "Will time be on Dublin's side once more?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  3. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  4. Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
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