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1895–96 Irish Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ112892490 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1895–96 Irish Cup was the 16th edition of the Irish Cup, the premier knock-out cup competition in Irish football.

Distillery won the tournament for the 6th time, defeating Glentoran 3–1 in the final.

Results

Dublin University, Milltown, Distillery, Celtic, Linfield, Moyola Park, Glentoran and Cliftonville given byes into the second round.

First round

Second round

Third round

Replays

Second replay

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

Northern Ireland Cup Finals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1895–96 Irish Cup” is football tournament season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Irish, football and tournament, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Irish, football and tournament is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112892490. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1895.

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This entry incorporates text from “1895–96 Irish Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.