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Billy Broderick

Irish swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ27924993 ↗
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William Denis Broderick (19 May 1908 – 4 April 1946) was an Irish swimmer. He competed in the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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“Billy Broderick” enters the record as irish swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Billy, Broderick and Irish 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—1908, 1946, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Billy, Broderick and Irish.
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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 Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27924993. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1946 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Billy Broderick” 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.