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406: 147:, found it almost impossible to put a single senior team on the field when a couple of years back they could put senior, intermediate and junior teams. There was certainly work for an organiser here to organise Gaelic football in Cork City and help to bring it back to the high position in the GAA which it held some years back." 142:
By the late 1920s the club was almost defunct and at the 1929 AGM the chairman "exhorted every member present both individually and collectively to strive earnestly for the welfare of the club whose motto was 'Nil Desperandum' and bring all possible honors to the club and to the county this year. He
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stressed the fact that Gaelic Football was in a deplorable state in the city at the present time, and teams of long connection with the GAA like Nils and
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clubs in Cork. It had a headquarters on Marlboro' Street and was largely represented by West Cork men who had come to the city to work.
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club. In 1888, after "some years" of playing rugby "Nils", as they were known, played their first
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Moran, Sean (3 May 1997). "The heart of Cork football still beats".
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in 1894, Nils went on to represent Cork in the controversial
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Cork
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Gaelic football
Gaelic Athletic Association
Cork Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
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Lees
Cork Senior Football Championships
Cork Junior Football Championships
Tom Irwin
Seán Óg Murphy
Jack Young
Dick Fitzgerald
"Rugby in Munster: a Social and Cultural History"
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"Senior Football Championship"
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