James Joseph Stuart, known as J. J. or Joe Stuart (9 June 1904 – 21 March 1980) was the 19th
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of the
Gaelic Athletic Association
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.
Born in
Ogonnelloe
Ogonnelloe () is a civil parish in east County Clare, Ireland, situated on the R463 regional road between Scariff and Killaloe and in the surrounding hills. It forms part of the Catholic parish of the same name.
Location
The parish is in the ...
,
County Clare
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, he won two
Fitzgibbon Cup medals with
UCD and also hurled in Clare, Galway and Limerick.
He was a medical doctor and was Master of Dublin's
Coombe Hospital from 1957 to 1963.
www.coombe.ie, retrieved 23 January 2017
He served as vice-chairman of Dublin GAA, Dublin county committee for many years and in 1954 became the only non-Leinster man to chair the Leinster Council.
He was also a prominent hurling
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referee who took charge of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Cork and Antrim.
References
1980 deaths
1904 births
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final referees
Chairmen of Gaelic games governing bodies
Dublin County Board administrators
Gaelic games players from County Clare
Hurling referees
Leinster Provincial Council administrators
Presidents of the Gaelic Athletic Association
20th-century Irish medical doctors
Medical doctors from County Clare
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