1951 All-Ireland Senior Football ChampionshipWinning team Mayo (3rd win)Munster Kerry Leinster Meath Ulster Antrim Connacht Mayo
The 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 65th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.
Mayo won their second All-Ireland in a row.[1] [2] [3]
The Curse of '51 [ ]
Mayo have not won an All-Ireland football final since 1951. Legend has it that a priest became furious when the Mayo team bus returning home from the 1951 final passed by a funeral without showing respect as they celebrated their All-Ireland win. The priest supposedly put a curse on Mayo, that they would not win another title until all of the team had died.[4] Since the deaths of Pádraig Carney in 2019 and Paddy Prendergast in 2021, only one member of the 1951 team remain living – Mick Loftus, though he was a sub and did not play on the day.[5] [6] Prendergast, who was the final surviving member of the team and played at full-back, died at the age of 95 on 26 September 2021.[7] [8] [9]
The curse is one that was disproven, for records show there was no funeral in Foxford on that day.[10]
Results [ ]
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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship [ ]
Main article: 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Championship statistics [ ]
Miscellaneous [ ]
In fact the Leinster football championship saw a triple of draws and replays they were in the following games as we know,
- Preliminary Round, .
- Quarter-Final, .
- Semi-Final, .
The All Ireland semi-final between Meath and Antrim was their first championship meeting.
Mayo are All Ireland Champions for 2 in a row and Connacht Champions for 4 in a row.
References [ ]
^ "Football Results 1941 - 1970" . Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-22 .
^ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010" . Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22 .
^ "Leinster Senior Football Champions - Roll of Honours" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28 .
^ Fennessy, Paul (13 September 2013). "Ever heard the story about the priest who put a lifelong curse on the Mayo football team in 1951?" . The 42 . Retrieved 21 September 2017 .
^ Gannon, Colm (14 June 2019). "The Flying Doctor – one of the true greats of Mayo" . Mayo Advertiser . Retrieved 26 September 2021 .
^ Healy, Martin (26 September 2021). "Paddy Prendergast, the final member of the Mayo 1951 team, dies aged 95" . Extra.ie . Retrieved 26 September 2021 .
^ Roche, Frank (26 September 2021). "Paddy Prendergast, the last surviving member of Mayo's 1951 All-Ireland winning XV, passes away aged 95" . Irish Independent . Retrieved 26 September 2021 .
^ Fogarty, John (26 September 2021). "Mayo great Paddy Prendergast passes away" . Irish Examiner . Retrieved 26 September 2021 .
^ O'Toole, Fintan (26 September 2021). "Mayo All-Ireland winning hero from 1951 team passes away" . The42.ie . Retrieved 26 September 2021 .
^ McGreal, Edwin (12 September 2017). "GAA oral history project debunks myth of Mayo 'curse' " . The Mayo News . Retrieved 15 September 2021 .
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