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1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ4558811 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 21st All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Tipperary were winners after a replay and extended their 100% record in All Ireland Finals to eight wins out of eight. This record came to an end when Tipperary got to the Final again in 1909 where they lost to Kilkenny.

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References

Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).

Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final” is football match. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through All-Ireland, Senior and Hurling, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1909, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, All-Ireland, Senior and Hurling is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4558811. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1909 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final” 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.