Hogan Jersey
This jersey was allegedly owned by Tipperary Gaelic footballer Michael Hogan, who was killed on the 21st November 1920 by British forces, while playing against Dublin in the GAA Great Challenge Match (Football) in Croke Park, Dublin. He is remembered in The Hogan Stand at Croke Park, which was opened on 7th June 1959.
14 people were killed and upwards of 60 wounded that day when British forces stormed the game and fired at random. This was in retaliation for the IRA assassinations of 13 British intelligence agents in Dublin, during which two civilians were also killed. On the same day, three IRA prisoners being held in Dublin Castle were shot while “trying to escape”. The day became known as “Bloody Sunday”.
Unlike the traditional blue and gold of the Tipperary jersey today, the Hogan Jersey is white with a green stripe. Originally the colours worn to represent a county in the All Ireland final were those of the club who had won the County Championship. In this instance the club was Fethard, but their jerseys were in poor condition and so the team opted to wear the white-and-green Grangemockler jersey instead.