Frank Burke (dual player), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank Burke (dual player)

Irish Gaelic footballer

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1895

Place of Birth: Carbury, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 28-Dec-1987

Profession: Gaelic football player, hurler

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Frank Burke (dual player)

  • James Francis Burke (8 April 1895 - 28 December 1987) was an Irish hurler, Gaelic footballer and revolutionary.
  • His championship career as a dual player with the Dublin senior teams spanned ten years from 1917 until 1927.Born in Carbury, County Kildare, Burke was educated locally before later boarding at St.
  • Enda's School in Dublin.
  • Under the influence of Patrick Pearse he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and was a founder-member of the Irish Volunteers in 1913.
  • During the 1916 Easter Rising Burke was stationed in the General Post Office before later manning a barricade on Moore Street.
  • After a period of internment in Stafford and Frongoch he returned to Dublin where took over as headmaster of St.
  • Enda's School.Burke enjoyed his first successes in competitive hurling and football during his studies at University College Dublin.
  • A regular on the university's inter-varsities team he won five Sigerson Cup medals and four Fitzgibbon Cup medals between 1915 and 1924. At club level Burke played with the Colegians team.
  • As a hurler he won three successive county senior championship medals from 1917 to 1919. Burke made his debut on the inter-county scene in 1914 when he was selected for the Dublin junior team.
  • He won an All-Ireland medal that year before collecting a second in 1916.
  • Burke subsequently joined the Dublin senior teams in both codes, making his debut in 1917.
  • Over the course of the next decade he became one of the greatest and most successful dual players of all time, winning All-Ireland medals as a hurler in 1917 and 1920 before collecting three successive All-Ireland medals as a footballer from 1921 to 1923.
  • Burke also won a total of nine Leinster medals.
  • He played his last game for Dublin during the 1927 championship.

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