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1979 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ4727955 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1979 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the sixth series of the All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship, Ireland's secondary hurling knock-out competition. Laois won the championship, beating London 1–20 to 0–17 in a replay of the final at Geraldine Park, Athy.

Results

All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship

Sources

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

Editorial summary

“1979 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what All-Ireland, Senior and Hurling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1979, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around All-Ireland, Senior and Hurling.
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“1979 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, All-Ireland, Senior and Hurling provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4727955. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship” 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.