1942 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship#Ulster Senior Hurling Championship
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{{Infobox Hurling All-Ireland
| year = 1942
| image =
| dates = 3 May – 3 September 1942
| teams = 12
| connacht =
| munster = Cork
| leinster = Dublin
| ulster =
| matches = 11
| poty =
| team = Cork
| titles = 13th
| captain = Jack Lynch
| manager =
| team2 = Dublin
| captain2 = Frank White
| manager2 =
| totalgoals = 82 (7.45 per game)
| totalpoints = 124 (11.27 per game)
| topscorer = Christy Ring (0-19)
| previous = 1941
| next = 1943
}}
The 1942 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 56th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The championship began on 3 May 1942 and ended on 3 September 1942.
The championship was won by Cork who secured the title following a 2–14 to 3–4 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final.{{cite web|url=http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/roll_of_honour2.html |title=All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Roll of Honour |publisher=The GAA website |access-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905085701/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/roll_of_honour2.html |archive-date=5 September 2011 }} This was their 13th All-Ireland title.
Cork were also the defending champions and retained the title for the fifth time in their history.
Teams
=Overview=
Six teams contested the Leinster championship while five teams contested the Munster championship. Galway, who faced no competition in their own province, entered the championship at the All-Ireland semi-final stage. No team from Ulster participated in the senior championship.
=Team summaries=
| class="wikitable" |
| rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Colours !colspan="3"|Most recent success |
|---|
| All-Ireland
!Provincial !League |
| Clare
|Saffron and blue |1914 |1932 | |
| Cork
|Red and white |1941 |1931 |
| Dublin
|Navy and blue |1938 |1941 |
| Galway
|Maroon and white |1923 |1922 |
| Kilkenny
|Black and amber |1939 |1940 |
| Laois
|Blue and white |1915 |1915 | |
| Limerick
|Green and white |1940 |1940 |
| Offaly
|Green, white and gold | | | |
| Tipperary
|Blue and gold |1937 |1941 |
| Waterford
|Blue and white | |1938 | |
| Westmeath
|Maroon and white | | | |
| Wexford
|Purple and gold |1910 |1918 | |
Results
=[[Leinster Senior Hurling Championship]]=
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| date = 3 May 1942
| round = Quarter-final
| team1 = Offaly
| score = 6-5 – 4-3
| team2 = Westmeath
| stadium = O'Connor Park
}}
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| date = 3 May 1942
| round = Quarter-final
| team1 = Laois
| score = 5-3 – 6-2
| team2 = Wexford
| stadium = O'Moore Park
}}
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| date = 31 May 1942
| round = Semi-final
| team1 = Wexford
| score = 4-4 – 5-5
| team2 = Kilkenny
| stadium = O'Kennedy Park
}}
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| date = 31 May 1942
| round = Semi-final
| team1 = Offaly
| score = 1-4 – 4-7
| team2 = Dublin
| stadium = St. Brendan's Park
}}
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| date = 28 June 1942
| round = Final
| team1 = Kilkenny
| score = 1-4 – 4-8
| team2 = Dublin
| goals1 = J Phelan 1-0, J Walsh 0-2, J Heffernan 0-1, J Kelly 0-1.
| goals2 = M McDonnell 1-6, P McMahon 1-1, J Hickey 1-0, P Kennedy 1-0, S Skehal 0-1.
| stadium = Nowlan Park
}}
=[[Munster Senior Hurling Championship]]=
First round
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| date = 31 May 1942
| round = First round
| team1 = Waterford
| score = 2-05 – 4-04
| team2 = Limerick
| goals1 = Duggan 1-1, Goode 1-0, Campbell 0-2, Galvin 0-1, W Barron 0-1.
| goals2 = J Roche 2-0, M Mackey 1-1, Foley 1-0, D Stokes 0-2, J Mackey 0-1.
| stadium = Cork Athletic Grounds, Cork
}}
Semi-finals
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| date = 17 May 1942
| round = Semi-final
| team1 = Tipperary
| score = 5-13 – 1-03
| team2 = Clare
| goals1 = D Doorley 2-2, J Looby 1-2, B O'Donnell 1-1, M Bourke 0-4, P Flanagan 1-0, T Treacy 0-3, J Ryan 0-1.
| goals2 = Fleming 1-0, R McNamara 0-2, M O'Halloran 0-1.
| stadium = Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
}}
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| date = 21 June 1942
| round = Semi-final
| team1 = Limerick
| score = 5-03 – 4-08
| team2 = Cork
| goals1 = D Stokes 2-0, J Roche 1-0, Fitzgerald 1-0, J Mackey 1-0, M Mackey 0-2, P Cregan 0-1.
| goals2 = J Quirke 3-0, D Beckett 1-0, C Ring 0-3, S Condon 0-1, DJ Buckley 0-1, C Tobin 0-1, M Kennefick 0-1.
| stadium = Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
| attendance = 6,030
}}
Final
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| date = 12 July 1942
| round = Final
| team1 = Cork
| score = 4-15 – 4-01
| team2 = Tipperary
| goals1 = C Ring 0-8, C Tobin 2-1, J Quirke 1-1, M Kennefick 1-1, S Condon 0-2, D Beckett 0-1, J Young 0-1.
| goals2 = T Treacy 2-1, J Ryan 1-0, M Bourke 1-0.
| stadium = Cork Athletic Grounds, Cork
| attendance = 24.320
}}
=[[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship]]=
Semi-final
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| date = 26 July 1942
| round = Semi-final
| team1 = Cork
| score = 6-08 – 2-04
| team2 = Galway
| goals1 =
| goals2 = Forde 1-1, Flaherty 1-0, S Thornton 0-1, Boyle 0-1, P Thornton 0-1,
| stadium = Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
| referee = M Hennessy (Clare)
}}
Final
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| date = 6 September 1942
| round = Final
| team1 = Cork
| score = 2-14 – 3-04
| team2 = Dublin
| goals1 = J Quirke 1-2, D Beckett 1-0, C Ring 0-3, J Lynch 0-3, S Condon 0-2, M Kennefick 0-2, DJ Buckley 0-1, C Tobin 0-1.
| goals2 = M McDonnell 1-1, D Davitt 1-0, E O'Brien 1-0, N Wade 0-2, S Skehal 0-1.
| stadium = Croke Park, Dublin
| attendance = 27,313
| referee = M Hennessy (Clare)
}}
{{main|1942 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final}}
Championship statistics
=Scoring=
- Widest winning margin: 22 points
- Tipperary 5-13 : 1-3 Clare (Munster semi-final, 17 May 1942)
- Most goals in a match: 11
- Laois 5-3 : 6-2 Wexford (Leinster quarter-final, 3 May 1942)
- Most points in a match: 18
- Cork 2-14 : 3-4 Dublin (All-Ireland final, 3 September 1942)
- Most goals by one team in a match: 6
- Offaly 6-5 : 4-3 Westmeath (Leinster quarter-final, 2 May 1942)
- Wexford 6-2 : 5-3 Laois (Leinster quarter-final, 3 May 1942)
- Cork 6-8 : 2-4 Galway (Leinster quarter-final, 26 July 1942)
- Most goals scored by a losing team: 5
- Laois 5-3 : 6-2 Wexford (Leinster quarter-final, 3 May 1942)
- Limerick 5-3 : 4-8 Cork (Munster semi-final, 21 June 1942)
- Most points scored by a losing team: 4
- Wexford 4-4 : 5-5 Kilkenny (Leinster semi-final, 31 May 1942)
- Offaly 1-4 : 4-7 Dublin (Leinster semi-final, 31 May 1942)
- Galway 2-4 : 6-8 Cork (All-Ireland semi-final, 26 July 1942)
- Dublin 3-4 : 2-14 Cork (All-Ireland final, 3 September 1942)
Roll of Honour
- Cork - 13 (1942)
- Kilkenny - 12 (1939)
- Tipperary - 12 (1937)
- Limerick - 6 (1940)
- Dublin - 6 (1938)
- Galway - 1 (1923)
- Laois - 1 (1915)
- Clare - 1 (1914)
- Wexford - 1 (1910)
- London - 1 (1901)
- Kerry - 1 (1891)
Sources
- Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
- Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).
- Horgan, Tim, Christy Ring: Hurling's Greatest (The Collins Press, 2007).
- Nolan, Pat, Flashbacks: A Half Century of Cork Hurling (The Collins Press, 2000).
- Sweeney, Éamonn, Munster Hurling Legends (The O'Brien Press, 2002).