Jack Keoghan

Jack Keoghan, who lived from 29 March 1887 to May 1963, was an Irish hurler from Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, whose championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted eight seasons from 1907 to 1914. He was just fifteen when he joined the Tullaroan senior team in 1902 and won three county championship medals over the next twelve years. Selected for the Kilkenny senior team for the 1907 championship, he was a regular for eight seasons and won five All-Ireland medals, beginning with triumphs in 1907 and 1909 and ending with three championships in a row from 1911 to 1913, as well as five Leinster medals. After emigrating to the United States he took a prominent role in the affairs of the Gaelic Athletic Association there, and he briefly returned to Ireland in 1928 when chosen on the United States team that played in the Tailteann Games.