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Bill McHugh

Irish hurler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2021
Entity authorityQ58010921 ↗
Source-derived summary

William McHugh (1885 - 4 December 1947) was an Irish hurler. He was a member of the Wexford team that won the All-Ireland Championship in 1910.

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“Bill McHugh” enters the record as irish hurler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bill, McHugh and Irish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1947, 1910—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, McHugh and Irish.
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“Bill McHugh” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bill, McHugh and Irish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 1, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q58010921. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1885, 1947 and 1910.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill McHugh” 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.