Daniel Delany Bulger

Daniel Delany Bulger (18 December 1865 – 8 December 1930) was a leading Irish athlete. Along with his younger brothers, Michael Joseph Bulger (1867–1938) and Lawrence Bulger (1870–1928), he was prominent in the Irish sporting world in the late 19th century. Daniel was one of the 79 delegates who attended the Congress of the Sorbonne in Paris in 1894 that lit the flame of the Olympic Games of the Modern Era in Athens in 1896.

The Bulger family were from Moore Street, Kilrush, County Clare, where their father, Daniel Scanlan Bulger (1831-1904), was a woollen merchant and draper and ran a loan office. Around 1880, the family moved to Dublin, where Daniel Scanlan Bulger became a member of the Dublin Stock Exchange and his sons were educated at Blackrock College and Trinity College Dublin, from where Daniel Delany Bulger graduated with a BA degree in 1886.

Between 1885 and 1892, Daniel Delany Bulger was the winner of 25 Gold Medals at Irish athletic championships run by either the Irish Amateur Athletic Association (I.A.A.A.) or the Gaelic Athletic Association (G.A.A.). In 1887, he was a member of the Irish athletics team that visited America. Between 1889 and 1892, he won five British Amateur Athletics Association (A.A.A.) championships. His achievements included multiple Irish championships in each of the 100 yards, 220 yards, 120 yards hurdles, and long jump, as well as British championships in the long jump and 120 yards hurdles. He introduced the crouch start into Irish sprinting.

In the 120 yards hurdles, he equalled the world record of 15.8 seconds at the I.A.A.A. championships at Ballsbridge on 1 August 1892.

On 1 August 1887, he set the Irish Native Record for 100 yards of 10.2 seconds at the G.A.A. Championships held at the County Kerry Athletic Club Grounds, Tralee. He held this record, jointly with Norman D. Morgan [1896], Denis Murray [1904], and James P. Roche [1907], until Frederick R. Shaw (Dublin University Athletic Club) clocked 10.0 seconds in Belfast on 20 July 1913.

The full list of his Irish athletics titles is as follows:

I.A.A.A. 100 yd Champion:

G.A.A. 100 yd Champion

I.A.A.A. 220 yd Champion

G.A.A. 220 yd Champion

I.A.A.A. 120 yd Hurdles Champion

G.A.A. 120 yd Hurdles Champion

I.A.A.A. Long Jump Champion

G.A.A. Long Jump Champion

His other Irish Championships placings included:

The full list of his British athletics titles is as follows:

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