Frank Burke (dual player)

James Francis Burke, born in Carbury, County Kildare, on 8 April 1895 and died on 28 December 1987, was an Irish hurler, Gaelic footballer and revolutionary. His championship career as a dual player with the Dublin senior teams spanned ten years from 1917 until 1927. Educated locally and then as a boarder at St Enda's School in Dublin, he came under the influence of Patrick Pearse, joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and was a founder-member of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. During the 1916 Easter Rising he was stationed in the General Post Office and later manned a barricade on Moore Street, and after internment at Stafford and Frongoch he became headmaster of St Enda's. At University College Dublin he won five Sigerson Cup and four Fitzgibbon Cup medals between 1915 and 1924.