American Football Ireland Winter 1984

Enda Mulcahy

4 years ago

Teams

Teams

Dublin Celts Green

Dublin Celts White

Irish American Football Winter 1984 [Reference: 1]

Results

*Date*	*Home Team*	*Away Team*
	Week ?	Phoenix Park
17.03.1985	Dublin Celts Green	Dublin Celts White

Irish American Football 1984-85 [Reference: 1]

Report

The Dublin Celts were American Football Ireland’s first official team, founded in 1984, after an advertisement was placed in the Evening Herald [Reference: 2]. About two dozen Regulars met at the Phoenix Park in Dublin for an American Football practice session and a short game [Reference: 1], presumably wearing their two different shirt colours: Green and White.

The game was new to Ireland following the influence of the UK’s Channel 4 Sunday evening programmes showing games from the United States of America. The Irish Times of 16th March 1985 reported there were apparently the start of teams in Coleraine, Co. Derry; and Blanchardstown, Foxrock and University College Dublin, all Co. Dublin. [Reference: 1]

References

Websites

[1] Anon. (1985) “Football Crazy” Irish Times. Saturday, March 16, 1985. pg. 16 [Internet] Available from the Irish Times Archive at: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1985/0316/Pg016.html#Ar01603 [The Irish Times Archive is a subscripttion service.

Sources

[2] Kevin Sharkey “The-Dublin-Celts History” 18 October 2020. Shared with permission by John Gunning via Facebook Messenger 18 October 2020.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Kevin Sharkey (Dublin Celts, Dublin Lightning and North Kildare Reapers).

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 25 October 2020