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Dessie Kane

cricketer (1952-2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ24844402 ↗
Source-derived summary

Terrence Desmond McKibbin Kane (10 May 1952 – 19 October 2012) was an Irish cricketer. He played one List A match for Ireland in 1981.

Editorial summary

“Dessie Kane” enters the record as cricketer (1952-2012). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dessie, Kane and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 2012, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-05-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dessie, Kane and cricketer.
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Why this record matters

“Dessie Kane” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dessie, Kane and cricketer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24844402. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952, 2012 and 1981.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dessie Kane” 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.