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Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer)

Gaelic footballer, born 1940

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7175935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Moore (1940–2010) was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football for his local club Ballinabrackey and was a senior member of the Meath county team from 1959 until 1970.

Editorial summary

“Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer)” enters the record as gaelic footballer, born 1940. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peter, Moore and Gaelic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2010, 1959, 1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peter, Moore and Gaelic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Peter, Moore and Gaelic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7175935. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1940, 2010, 1959 and 1970.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer) primary sources, Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer) archive and Peter 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 “Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer)”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Moore (Gaelic footballer)” 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.