Cecil Curran

Cecil Curran was a lawn bowls international from Northern Ireland who competed at the British Empire Games, now the Commonwealth Games. He began bowling in 1927 with the Ormeau club and later bowled for the Shaftesbury Bowls Club in Belfast. He represented the Northern Irish team at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, taking part in the rinks, or fours, event alongside Charlie Clawson, George Watson and Percy Watson, and the four won the silver medal. At home he was twice national pairs champion with Charlie Clawson, in 1932 and in 1939, and he played for Ireland on fifty occasions. His career is a compact example of the club-based path through which Irish and Northern Irish bowlers reached early international and Empire Games competition in the interwar period.