Jack Keane (hurler)

Jack Keane, who lived from 19 April 1892 to 24 April 1978, was an Irish hurler from Castleconnell, County Limerick, whose championship career with the Limerick senior team lasted from 1912 until 1927. After playing in club tournament games in his youth and spending a year in the United States, he joined the Castleconnell club and, after it failed to field a championship team in 1918, Young Irelands, winning county senior championship medals in 1920 and 1922 before ending his career with the newly founded Ahane club. He made his senior debut for Limerick in a tournament game in 1912 and quickly became a regular; his half-back partnership with Willie Hough and Dinny Lanigan became known as the Hindenburg Line of hurling. Over a fifteen-year inter-county career he won All-Ireland medals in 1918 and 1921 and three Munster medals, and later he was a selector for the Limerick senior team in the 1930s, when Limerick won the championship in 1934 and 1936.