Samuel Maguire was an Irish republican and Gaelic football player.
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13 Facts About Sam Maguire
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Sam Maguire is chiefly remembered as the eponym of the Sam Maguire Cup, given to the All-Ireland Senior Champions of Gaelic football each year.
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Sam Maguire was born in the townland of Mallabraca near the town of Dunmanway in West Cork on 1877 and was a member of the Protestant Church of Ireland.
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Sam Maguire was the son of farmer John Maguire and Jane Kingston.
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Sam Maguire went to school in the Model School in the local town Dunmanway and then to the national school in Ardfield.
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Sam Maguire joined and captained the successful London Hibernians Gaelic football team to several All-Ireland finals between 1900 and 1904.
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Sam Maguire is remembered in the political sphere for recruiting the nationalist leader Michael Collins to the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1909 and for many years was one of Collins's right hand men.
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Sam Maguire was tipped off and fled to Dublin in December 1923 where he got a job in the newly established Irish civil service.
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Sam Maguire then developed TB and died in penury in 1927 aged 49.
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Sam Maguire is buried in the cemetery of Saint Mary's in Dunmanway.
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On 15 September 2002, a statue of Sam Maguire was unveiled as the centrepiece of a new €500,000 plaza in Dunmanway's town centre.
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Sam Maguire Cup was designed and presented to the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928 in his honour after his death in 1927.
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