Leinster Nomads

Leinster Nomads was an association football club based in Dublin, Ireland which was formed in 1890 by former members of Dublin Association F.C..[1] Dublin Association had folded that same year after a dispute with the Irish Football Association surrounding an Irish Cup semi-final tie with Cliftonville in which it was alleged that match-officials were connected to Cliftonville. After the IFA to replay or terminate the tie, Association pulled out of the competition and folded as a club.[2]

On 27 October 1892, Nomads were one of five football clubs present at the foundation of the Leinster Football Association (LFA), at a meeting in the Wicklow Hotel on Exchequer Street, Dublin. Shortly after the LFA became affiliated to the Irish Football Association and the LFA soon organized their own cup competition, the Leinster Senior Cup which was first played for in 1892–93. The inaugural final saw Nomads defeat Dublin University 2–1. After the inaugural win by Nomads, Bohemians and Shelbourne monopolised the cup for the next twenty-four years.[3]

Within a few seasons the Leinster Senior League was also established. Ciarán Priestley highlights a printed notice in the 4 September 1894 edition of The Irish Times. Under the headline "Leinster Football League" there is a report of "a general meeting of the league... held the other evening at 27 D'Olier Street". Priestley also lists Nomads, alongside Bohemians, Britannia, Dublin University, Phoenix and Montpelier as participants in the first season. However other sources suggest the league started a little later and was first played for in 1896–97 and that an unidentified British Army regimental team where the inaugural winners while Shelbourne were runners up.[4][5][6][7]

International and Inter-provincial representation

Unlike its predecessor club, Dublin Association, the Nomads never had players represented on the Ireland team. The club itself saw this as a political move by the Belfast-based Irish Football Association, claiming that the IFA's selection committee of five men in Belfast were preventing anyone outside of that city to represent Ireland.[8] The team did have representation in select teams representing the Leinster FA and Dublin. On 9 December 1893, in Belfast, two Nomads members were part of a Leinster team that faced Ulster,[9] including R.H. Harrison, who captained the side.[10]

Leinster Football Association (LFA) interprovincials 1893-1895[10]
  • R.H. Harrison
  • D.J. Morrogh
  • Bennett
  • Gillespie
  • Keogh
Dublin inter-county representatives 1893-1895[11]
  • D. Morrogh
  • Gillespie
  • Keogh

Honours

References
  1. Neal Garnham, Association Football and Society in Pre-partition Ireland (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2004), page 6.
  2. "From Belfast Celtic to Shelbourne". The Irish Times. 16 November 1996. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. Byrne, Peter (2012). Green Is The Colour: The Story of Irish Football. Andre Deutsch.
  4. Byrne, Peter (1996). Football Association of Ireland: 75 years. Dublin: Sportsworld. ISBN 1-900110-06-7.
  5. www.braywanderers.com
  6. Leinster Senior League
  7. Ciarán Priestley: The Bohemian Football Club: The Enduring Legacy of an Idle Youth Archived 2015-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  8. roberts, Bejamin (2017). Gunshots & Goalposts: The Story of Northern Irish Football. Belfast: Avenue Books. ISBN 9781905575114.
  9. Ciarán Priestley: The Bohemian Football Club: The Enduring Legacy of an Idle Youth Archived 2015-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Inter-Provincial Representative Matches". Northern Ireland Football Greats. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  11. "Inter-County & Inter-City Representative Matches". Northern Ireland Football Greats. 17 April 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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