Jimmy Walsh (Kilkenny hurler)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Séamus Breathnach | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Right wing-forward | ||
| Born |
4 February 1911 Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Ireland |
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| Died | 26 December 1977 (aged 66) Kilkenny, Ireland |
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| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1928–1946 | Carrickshock | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Kilkenny titles | 6 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1932–1944 | Kilkenny | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Leinster titles | 7 | ||
| All-Irelands | 4 | ||
| NHL | 1 | ||
James "Jimmy" Walsh (4 February 1911 – 26 December 1977) was an Irish hurler who played as a left wing-forward for the Kilkenny senior team.
Born in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Walsh first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team. He made his debut during the 1932 championship. Walsh immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won one All-Ireland medals, seven Leinster medals and eight National League medals. The All-Ireland-winning captain in 1932, he was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.
As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Walsh won two Railway Cup medals. At club level he was a six-time championship medallist with Carrickshock.
Walsh retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1944 championship.
In 1928 Walsh was just seventeen-years-old when he was included as a key member of the Carrickshock junior hurling team. That year he won a Kilkenny Junior Hurling Championship medal in that grade, as Carrickshcok secured promotion to the senior ranks following a 2–3 to 1–2 defeat of Wellbrook in the decider.
Three years later in 1931, Carrickshock reached the senior decider, having been runners-up in their inaugural senior championship campaign in 1929. Urlingford provided the opposition on that occasion, however, a 5–8 to 3–8 victory gave Walsh his first championship medal.
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