Pierce Grace

Pierce Grace, born in Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, on 7 September 1885 and died on 4 October 1966, was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler whose championship career as a dual player with the Dublin and Kilkenny senior teams spanned nine seasons from 1906 until 1914. One of eleven children, raised on the family farm, he attended St Joseph's CBS and St Kieran's College and later qualified as a medical doctor at University College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons. He won four county hurling championship medals with Tullaroan between 1899 and 1903, and after moving to Dublin joined Kickhams, where he won back-to-back county football medals in 1906 and 1907 and a county hurling medal in 1908. He joined the Dublin senior football team in 1906 and in a brief career won back-to-back All-Ireland medals in 1906 and 1907.