Jim Hurley

Jim Hurley (26 February 1902 to 10 February 1965) was an Irish sportsperson and revolutionary, born in Clonakilty, County Cork. A veteran of the Irish independence struggle, he led a flying column of the Third Cork Brigade in the War of Independence, took the republican side in the Civil War and was on hunger strike for 42 days in 1923 while interned at the Curragh, before his release in 1924. He then became town clerk in Clonakilty and studied at University College Cork, where he won a Fitzgibbon Cup medal with the college hurlers. He played club hurling with Blackrock, winning Cork senior titles in 1925, 1927, 1929 and 1930, and played hurling with Cork at inter-county level, winning Munster and All-Ireland junior titles in 1925 before capturing his first National Hurling League, Munster and All-Ireland senior honours in 1926. He won a third All-Ireland medal in 1929 and retired from inter-county hurling shortly after the 1931 final. He was later a selector on the Cork football team that won the All-Ireland in 1945.