Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett (1902 to 1952) was an Irish Gaelic footballer from Tralee, County Kerry, who played club football and hurling with Austin Stack's and was a member of the Kerry senior football team from 1923 until 1933. He captained Kerry to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1929 and 1932 and became the first Kerry man to lift the Sam Maguire Cup. Over his inter-county career he collected six All-Ireland medals, nine Munster Championship medals and two National Football League titles. Away from the field he worked in his family's pig and cattle dealing business, had joined the Irish Volunteers at fifteen, and was imprisoned during the Civil War, when he went on a 22-day hunger strike. He died in 1952, a month short of his fiftieth birthday.