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1942–43 League of Ireland

football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ1763961 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1942–43 League of Ireland was the 22nd season of senior football in the Republic of Ireland. Cork United were the defending champions.

Changes from 1941–42

No new teams were elected to the League.

Teams

Season overview

Cork United won their third title, becoming the first team to win three consecutive titles.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1942–43 League of Ireland” is football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through League, Ireland and football, 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—1942, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, League, Ireland and football is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “football season” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1763961. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942 and 1941.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1942–43 League of Ireland” 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.