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Ireland XV: 1 Andrew Porter, 2 Gus McCarthy, 3 Finlay Bealham; 4 Joe McCarthy, 5 Tadhg Beirne; 6 Cormac Izuchukwu, 7 Josh van der Flier, 8 Caelan Doris (captain); 9 Craig Casey, 10 Sam Prendergast ...
Ireland's International Matches 1926–1981, Football Association of Ireland. Retrieved: 2024-11-21. Archived: 2013-10-11. Ireland's International Matches 1982–2011, Football Association of Ireland. Retrieved 21 November 2024, archived 10-09-2012; FAI History: The Early Years, Football Association of Ireland. Retrieved: 2011-09-11.
Elsewhere, association football was under pressure from the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), which banned members from playing or watching association football as being a "foreign" game. The First World War increased the gulf as the Irish League was suspended and replaced by regional leagues, foreshadowing the ultimate split.
Between 1882 and 1924, Ireland was represented by a single national football team organised by the Belfast-based Irish Football Association (IFA). In 1920, Ireland was partitioned into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State (the latter in turn becoming Éire or Ireland after adopting a new Constitution in 1937, followed by declaring itself a ...
Shortly after the partition of Ireland, in 1921, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) was established as a rival association to regulate the game in what was to become the Irish Free State. The immediate cause of the split lay in a bitter dispute over the venue for the replay of an Irish Cup match in 1921 involving Glentoran of Belfast and ...
Ireland national football team may refer to: Association football (soccer) Ireland national football team (1882–1950), the Irish Football Association's (IFA) original all-island team; first played in 1882; Northern Ireland national football team, the successor to the original IFA team; sometimes played as "Ireland" until the 1970s
Republic of Ireland national football team results; Irish Free State – 1924–1935; Ireland (FAI) – 1936–1954; 1954–1959; 1960–1979; 1980–1989; 1990–1999;
Association football match in Kilkenny. Association football (Irish: Peil/Sacar) commonly referred to as football or soccer (to avoid confusion with Gaelic football), is the team sport with the second highest level of participation in the Republic of Ireland (with five-a-side games being included). [1]