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Jack Hastings

Irish footballer (1858-1935)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ3805592 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Hastings (1858 – March 1935) was an Irish international footballer who played club football for Ulster and Knock as a centre half.

Hastings earned a total of seven caps for Ireland between 1882 and 1886.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jack Hastings” is irish footballer (1858-1935). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jack, Hastings and Irish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1858, 1935, 1882, 1886—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1858-01-01. For this dossier, Jack, Hastings and Irish is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “irish footballer (1858-1935)” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3805592. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1858, 1935, 1882 and 1886.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jack Hastings”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jack Hastings primary sources, Jack Hastings archive and Jack research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jack Hastings”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jack Hastings” 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.