| All-Ireland Champions | |
|---|---|
| Winning team | Kerry (15th win) |
| Captain | Bill Dillon |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Galway |
| Captain | Dinny O'Sullivan |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Kerry |
| Leinster | Dublin |
| Ulster | Cavan |
| Connacht | Galway |
| Championship statistics | |
← 1940 1942 → | |
The 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 55th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their fifteenth title, moving ahead of Dublin in the all-time standings. [1] [2] [3]
There was major disruption to the format of the 1941 championship due to a serious outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in many parts of Munster and south Leinster. The championship was run on a knockout provincial basis as usual; however, there was a certain amount of tweaking required to cope with the situation. Dublin, for instance, did not contest the All-Ireland semi-final as Leinster champions; they were nominated to play the game and their Leinster final against Carlow (which Dublin won) was postponed until November. [4]
Kerry, were a bye team to the Munster final, Cork a bye team to the Munster semi-final, A Preliminary Round game was contested between Tipperary and Waterford – the winners were awarded the Quarter-final against Clare. Limerick refused to take part in the Championship. It was also used in the 1939 championship but this format did not exist again until 1980.
| Galway | 0–10 – 1–5 | Mayo |
|---|---|---|
| J Carney (0–1), PJ Judge (0–1), P Laffey (0–1); M O’Malley (0–1) & T Hoban (1–1). |
| Kildare | 2–5 – 1–7 | Offaly |
|---|---|---|
| J.Martin (2f) 1–2, T.Dalton 1–0, R.Martin, M.Brosnan, T.Mulhall 0–1. |
| Kildare | 5–7 – 0–6 | Longford |
|---|---|---|
| J.Malone, M.Brosnan, T.Dalton 1–1, J.Martin 0–2, T.Mulhall, J.Mackey 0–1. |
| Dublin | 2–11 – 2–10 | Kildare |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Fletcher 2–0, Tommy Banks 0–6 (0-5f), Jimmy Joy and Gerry Fitzgerald 0–2 each, Johnny Counihan 0–1 | Joe Martin 1–4 (0-2f), Peter Waters 1–2 (1–0 pen), Mick Brosnan 0–2 (0-1f), Micky Geraghty and Tommy Mulhall 0–1 each |
The 1941 semi-final replay, held in Tralee, was the last All-Ireland semi-final replay to be held outside Croke Park until the 1983 replay between Cork and Dublin in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. [4]
| Kerry | 2–9 – 0–3 | Dublin |
|---|---|---|
| S. Brosnan (0–2), T. G. O'Connor (1–0), P. B. Brosnan (0–1), J. G. O'Gorman (0–1), M. Kelly (0–5) & C. O'Sullivan (1–0). |
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Dublin... hadn't won Leinster for seven years and didn't go into the All-Ireland semi-final as provincial champions – they were nominated by the province because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak that year, which caused the Leinster final against Carlow to be postponed until November. Postscript: Dublin won by 4–6 to 1–4... By this stage [the 1930s] the tendency to spread the [All-Ireland] semi-finals around the country was dying, and the 1941 replay in Tralee would be the last played outside Croke Park until 1983, when Dublin memorably went to Páirc Uí Chaoimh to take on Cork in an All-Ireland semi-final replay.