Ireland at the Olympics

A team representing Ireland has competed at the Summer Olympic Games since 1924, and at the Winter Olympic Games since 1992. The Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) was formed in 1922[1] during the provisional administration prior to the formal establishment of the Irish Free State. The OFI affiliated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in time for the Paris games.[1] There has been controversy over whether the team represents the Republic of Ireland or the entire island of Ireland, which comprises both the Republic and Northern Ireland.[2]

Ireland at the
Olympics
IOC codeIRL
NOCOlympic Federation of Ireland
Websiteolympics.ie
Medals
Gold
9
Silver
10
Bronze
12
Total
31
Summer appearances
Winter appearances
Other related appearances
 Great Britain (1896–1920)

Medal tables
See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table

Medals by summer sport
SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Athletics4217
Swimming3014
Boxing25916
Sailing0202
Rowing0101
Equestrian0011
Totals (6 sports)9101231

List of medallists

The following tables include medals won by athletes on OCI teams. All medals have been won at Summer Games. Ireland's best result at the Winter Games has been fourth, by Clifton Wrottesley in the Men's Skeleton at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Some athletes have won medals representing other countries, which are not included on these tables.[3]

Medallists
Medal Name Games Sport Event
 GoldPat O'Callaghan 1928 Amsterdam AthleticsMen's hammer throw
 GoldBob Tisdall 1932 Los Angeles AthleticsMen's 400 metre hurdles
 GoldPat O'Callaghan 1932 Los Angeles AthleticsMen's hammer throw
 SilverJohn McNally 1952 Helsinki BoxingMen's bantamweight
 GoldRonnie Delany 1956 Melbourne AthleticsMen's 1500 metres
 SilverFred Tiedt 1956 Melbourne BoxingMen's welterweight
 BronzeJohn Caldwell 1956 Melbourne BoxingMen's flyweight
 BronzeFreddie Gilroy 1956 Melbourne BoxingMen's bantamweight
 BronzeAnthony Byrne 1956 Melbourne BoxingMen's lightweight
 BronzeJim McCourt 1964 Tokyo BoxingMen's lightweight
 BronzeHugh Russell 1980 Moscow BoxingMen's flyweight
 SilverDavid Wilkins
James Wilkinson		 1980 Moscow SailingFlying Dutchman class
 SilverJohn Treacy 1984 Los Angeles AthleticsMen's marathon
 GoldMichael Carruth 1992 Barcelona BoxingMen's welterweight
 SilverWayne McCullough 1992 Barcelona BoxingMen's bantamweight
 GoldMichelle Smith 1996 Atlanta SwimmingWomen's 400 metre freestyle
 GoldMichelle Smith 1996 Atlanta SwimmingWomen's 200 metre individual medley
 GoldMichelle Smith 1996 Atlanta SwimmingWomen's 400 metre individual medley
 BronzeMichelle Smith 1996 Atlanta SwimmingWomen's 200 metre butterfly
 SilverSonia O'Sullivan 2000 Sydney AthleticsWomen's 5000 metres
 SilverKenny Egan 2008 Beijing BoxingMen's Light Heavyweight
 BronzePaddy Barnes 2008 Beijing BoxingMen's Light flyweight
 BronzeDarren Sutherland 2008 Beijing BoxingMen's Middleweight
 GoldKatie Taylor 2012 London BoxingWomen's lightweight
 SilverJohn Joe Nevin 2012 London BoxingMen's Bantamweight
 BronzePaddy Barnes 2012 London BoxingMen's Light flyweight
 BronzeMichael Conlan 2012 London BoxingMen's flyweight
 BronzeCian O'Connor 2012 London EquestrianIndividual Showjumping
 BronzeRobert Heffernan 2012 London AthleticsMen's 50 kilometres walk
 SilverGary O'Donovan
Paul O'Donovan		 2016 Rio de Janeiro RowingMen's lightweight double sculls
 SilverAnnalise Murphy 2016 Rio de Janeiro SailingWomen's Laser Radial

Doping

Medallists in art competitions
Main article: List of Olympic medallists in art competitions

Art competitions were held from 1912 to 1948. Irish entries first appeared in 1924, when they won two medals; a third was won in the 1948 competition.

Medal Name Games Event Piece
 SilverJack Butler Yeats 1924 ParisMixed PaintingNatation[9] ("Swimming"; now on display in the National Gallery of Ireland with the title The Liffey Swim[10])
 BronzeOliver St. John Gogarty 1924 ParisMixed LiteratureOde pour les Jeux de Tailteann[9] (Tailteann Ode, which had won the prize for poetry at the revived Tailteann Games earlier that year[11]) Gogarty was awarded a bronze medal despite two silver medals being awarded in the category.[12]
 BronzeLetitia Marion Hamilton 1948 LondonPaintingsMeath Hunt Point-to-Point Races[13] (a painting in 2012 "believed to be somewhere in the United States"[14])

Before independence
See also: List of Olympic competitors from Ireland who represented other countries

Prior to 1922, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Competitors at earlier Games born and living in Ireland are thus counted as British in Olympic statistics. At early Olympics, Irish-born athletes won numerous medals for the United States, notably the "Irish Whales" in throwing events.

The Irish Amateur Athletic Association was invited to the inaugural International Olympic Committee meeting in 1894, and may have been invited to the 1896 games; it has also been claimed the Gaelic Athletic Association was invited.[15] In the event, neither participated.[15] Prior to the 1906 Intercalated Games, National Olympic Committees (NOCs) were generally non-existent and athletes could enter the Olympics individually. John Pius Boland, who came first in two tennis events in 1896, is now listed as "IRL/GBR";[1][16] Boland's daughter later claimed that he had objected when the Union Jack was raised to mark his triumph, and that the organisers apologised for not having an Irish flag.[17] Kevin MacCarthy is sceptical of this story, though by 1906 Boland was crediting his medals to "Ireland".[17]

Tom Kiely, who won the "all-around" athletics competition at the 1904 Olympics in St Louis is also listed as competing for "Great Britain".[18] He had raised funds in counties Tipperary and Waterford to travel independently and compete for Ireland.[2] Frank Zarnowski does not regard the 1904 event as part of the Olympic competition, and doubts the story that Kiely had refused offers by both the English Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) and the New York Athletic Club to pay his fare so he could compete for them.[2][19] Peter Lovesey disagrees with Zarnowski.[20]

The British Olympic Association (BOA) was formed in 1905, and Irish athletes were accredited to the BOA team from the 1906 Games onwards. Whereas Pierre de Coubertin recognised teams from Bohemia and Finland separately from their respective imperial powers, Austria and Russia, he was unwilling to make a similar distinction for Ireland, either because it lacked a National Olympic Committee, or for fear of offending Britain.[21] At the 1906 Games, Peter O'Connor and Con Leahy objected when the British flag was raised at their victory ceremony, and raised a green Irish flag in defiance of the organisers.[1][22]

At the 1908 Games in London, there were multiple BOA entries in several team events, including two representing Ireland. In the hockey tournament, the Irish team finished second, behind England and ahead of Scotland and Wales. The Irish polo team finished joint second in the three-team tournament, despite losing to one of two English teams in its only match.

At the 1912 Olympics, and despite objections from other countries, the BOA entered three teams in the cycling events, one from each of the separate English, Scottish and Irish governing bodies for the sport.[23] The Irish team came 11th in the team time trial.[23] The organisers had proposed a similar division in the football tournament, but the BOA demurred.[24]

A 1913 list of 35 countries to be invited to the 1916 Olympics included Ireland separately from Great Britain; similarly Finland and Hungary were to be separate from Russia and Austria, although Bohemia was not listed.[25] A newspaper report of the 1914 Olympic Congress says it endorsed a controversial German Olympic Committee proposal that "now—contrary to the hitherto existing practice—only political nations may participate as teams in the Olympic Games", with the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" among these "political nations".[26] In the event, the games were cancelled due to the First World War.

After the war, John J. Keane attempted to unite various sports associations under an Irish Olympic Committee.[27] Many sports had rival bodies, one Unionist and affiliated to a United Kingdom parent, the other Republican and opposed to any link with Great Britain. Keane proposed that a separate Irish delegation, marching under the Union Flag, should participate at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.[27] At the time the Irish War of Independence was under way, and the IOC rejected Keane's proposal, pending the settlement of the underlying political situation.[27]

Political issues

The OCI has always used the name "Ireland", and has claimed to represent the entire island of Ireland, even though Northern Ireland remained part of the United Kingdom.[28] These points have been contentious, particularly from the 1930s to the 1950s in athletics, and until the 1970s in cycling.[2]

Northern Ireland
Proposed Olympic flag for Ireland, the arms of Ireland.[29]

The governing bodies in the island of Ireland of many sports had been established prior to the 1922 partition, and most have remained as single all-island bodies since then. Recognition of the Irish border was politically contentious and unpopular with Irish nationalists. The National Athletic and Cycling Association (Ireland), or NACA(I), was formed in 1922 by the merger of rival all-island associations, and affiliated to both the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) and Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).[2] When Northern Ireland athletes were selected for the 1928 games, the possibility was raised of using an "all-Ireland banner" as the team flag, rather than the Irish tricolour which unionists disavowed.[30] J. J. Keane stated that it was too late to change the flag registered with the IOC, but was hopeful that the coat of arms of Ireland would be adopted afterwards.[29]

In 1925, some Northern Ireland athletics clubs left NACA(I) and in 1930 formed the Northern Ireland Amateur Athletics Association, which later formed the British Athletic Federation (BAF) with the English and Scottish Amateur Athletics Associations.[2] The BAF then replaced the (English) AAA as Britain's member of the IAAF, and moved that all members should be delimited by political boundaries.[2] This was not agreed in time for the 1932 Summer Olympics —at which two NACA(I) athletes won gold medals for Ireland— but was agreed at the IAAF's 1934 congress.[2] The NACA(I) refused to comply and was suspended in 1935, thus missing the 1936 Berlin Olympics.[2] The OCI decided to boycott the Games completely in protest.[2][31]

The UCI likewise suspended the NACA(I) for refusing to confine itself to the Irish Free State. The athletics and cycling wings of the NACA(I) split into two all-island bodies, and separate Irish Free State bodies split from each and secured affiliation to the IAAF and UCI. These splits were not fully resolved until the 1990s. The "partitionist" Amateur Athletic Union of Éire (AAUE) affiliated to the IAAF, but the all-Ireland NACA(I) remained affiliated to the OCI. The IOC allowed AAUÉ athletes to compete for Ireland at the 1948 London Olympics, but the rest of the OCI delegation shunned them.[2] At that games, two swimmers from Northern Ireland were prevented from competing in the OCI team. This was a FINA ruling rather than an IOC rule; Danny Taylor from Belfast was allowed by FISA to compete in the rowing.[2] The entire swimming squad withdrew,[32] but the rest of the team competed.[33]

Some athletes born in what had become the Republic of Ireland continued to compete for the British team.[2] In 1952, new IOC President Avery Brundage and new OCI delegate Lord Killanin agreed that people from Northern Ireland would in future be allowed to compete in any sport on the OCI team.[2][34] In Irish nationality law, birth in Northern Ireland grants a citizenship entitlement similar to birth within the Republic of Ireland itself. In 1956, Killanin stated that both the OCI and the BOA "quite rightly" judged eligibility based on citizenship laws.[35] UCI and IAAF affiliated bodies were subsequently affiliated to the OCI, thus regularising the position of Irish competitors in those sports at the Olympics. Members of the all-Ireland National Cycling Association (NCA) with Irish Republican sympathies twice interfered with the Olympic road race in protest against the UCI-affiliated Irish Cycling Federation (ICF). In 1956, three members caused a 13-minute delay at the start.[36] Seven were arrested in 1972; three had delayed the start[37] and the other four joined mid-race to ambush ICF competitor Noel Taggart, causing a minor pileup.[38] This happened days after the murders of Israeli athletes and at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland; the negative publicity helped precipitate an end to the NCA–ICF feud.[39]

The Irish Hockey Union joined the OCI in 1949,[40] and the Ireland team in non-Olympic competitions is selected on an all-island basis.[41] Until 1992 the IHU was not invited to the Olympic hockey tournament,[41] while Northern Irish hockey players like Stephen Martin played on the British Olympic men's team.[41] In 1992, invitation was replaced by an Olympic qualifying tournament, which the IHU/IHA has entered, despite some opposition from Northern Irish members.[41] Northern Irish players can play for Ireland or Britain, and can switch affiliation subject to International Hockey Federation clearance.[42] The Irish Ladies Hockey Union has entered the Olympics since 1984, and in 1980 suspended Northern Irish players who elected to play for the British women's team.[41]

Through to the 1960s, Ireland was represented in showjumping only by members of the Irish Army Equitation School, as the all-island civilian equestrian governing body was unwilling to compete under the Republic's flag and anthem.[43]

In November 2003, the OCI discovered that the British Olympic Association (BOA) had been using Northern Ireland in the text of its "Team Members Agreement" document since the 2002 Games.[44] Its objection was made public in January 2004. The BOA responded that "Unbeknown to each other both the OCI and BOA have constitutions approved by the IOC acknowledging territorial responsibility for Northern Ireland", the BOA constitution dating from 1981.[44] OCI president Pat Hickey claimed the IOC's copy of the BOA constitution had "question marks" against mentions of Northern Ireland (and Gibraltar);[45] an IOC spokesperson said "Through an error we have given both national Olympic committees rights over the same area."[46] The 2012 Games host was to be selected in July 2004 and so, to prevent the dispute harming the London bid, its director Barbara Cassani and the Blair government secured agreement by which Northern Ireland was removed from BOA documents and marketing materials.[47][34] Northern Ireland athletes retain the right to compete for Britain.[34]

Most commonly held passport in Northern Ireland (2011 Census)

In October 2004, Lord McIntosh of Haringey told the House of Lords:[48]

The longstanding practice relating to athletes in Northern Ireland who qualify for participation at the Olympic Games is that an athlete born in Northern Ireland who qualifies for participation at the Olympic Games and who holds a UK passport, may opt for selection by either Team GB or Ireland. The British Olympic Association (BOA) and the Olympic Council for Ireland (OCI) have recently confirmed this agreement.

By contrast, OCI officers Pat Hickey and Dermot Sherlock told an Oireachtas committee in 2008:[49]

If someone is entitled to an Irish passport and is in possession of that passport, he or she can qualify to compete for Ireland as long as he or she has not competed for some other country in a previous Olympic Games. If he or she had competed for another country previously, we might allow him or her to compete for Ireland...The Irish passport is used as the measurement.[...]As people from Northern Ireland can choose whether to have an Irish or a British passport, athletes from that part of the world can choose whether to compete for Ireland or Britain.

Hickey also said:[49]

The council is proud that, like the Irish rugby team, it represents the island of Ireland. Ireland is unusual, in Olympic terms. The council is not the Olympic committee of the Republic of Ireland - it is the Olympic Council of Ireland. We have responsibility for the North of Ireland. We can thank my predecessor, Lord Killanin, for that.

In 2012, Stephen Martin, who has been an executive at both the OCI and the BOA, said "Team GB is a brand name. Just like Team Ireland. The British and Irish Olympic committees are seen by the International Olympic Committees as having joint rights over Northern Ireland."[50]

In 2009, rugby sevens was added to the Olympic programme starting in 2016. While World Rugby states players from Northern Ireland are eligible to compete on the Great Britain team,[51] the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) director of rugby said in 2011 that "with the agreement of the [English, Scottish, and Welsh] unions" the "de facto position" was that Northern Ireland players must represent an IRFU team.[52] In 2010 The Daily Telegraph opined that the IRFU would be entitled to refuse to release players under contract to it, but not to prohibit Northern Ireland players based outside Ireland; but that the issue needed to be handled "with extreme sensitivity".[53]

Name of the country
See also: Names of the Irish state

The OFI sees itself as representing the island rather than the state, and hence uses the name "Ireland".[2] It changed its own name from "Irish Olympic Council" to "Olympic Council of Ireland" in 1952 to reinforce this point.[2] (The change from "Council" to "Federation" was a 2018 rebranding after the 2016 ticketing controversy.[54]) At the time, Lord Killanin had become OCI President and delegate to the IOC, and was trying to reverse the IOC's policy of referring to the OCI's team by using an appellation of the state rather than the island. While the name "Ireland" had been unproblematic at the 1924 and 1928 Games, after 1930, the IOC sometimes used "Irish Free State". IOC President Henri de Baillet-Latour supported the principle of delimitation by political borders.[2] At the 1932 Games, Eoin O'Duffy persuaded the Organisers to switch from "Irish Free State" to "Ireland" shortly before the Opening Ceremony.[2] After the 1937 Constitution took effect, the IOC switched to "Eire"; this conformed to British practice, although within the state's name in English was "Ireland". At the opening ceremony of the 1948 Summer Olympics, teams marched in alphabetical order of their country's name in English; the OCI team was told to move from the I's to the E's.[2] After the Republic of Ireland Act came into effect in 1949, British policy was to use "Republic of Ireland" rather than "Eire". In 1951, the IOC made the same switch at its Vienna conference, after IOC member Lord Burghley had consulted the British Foreign Office.[55] An OCI request to change this to "Ireland" was rejected in 1952.[56] The name "Ireland" was accepted just before the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.[2][35] The OCI had argued that this was the name in the state's own Constitution, and that all the OCI's affiliated sports except the Football Association of Ireland were all-island bodies.[35]

See also

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