G.A.A. All-Ireland Football Championship Finals Programme, 1981. Kerry and Offaly

GAA – ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL, 1981
Kerry v Offaly. Official Programme. Dublin: Gaelic Athletic Association, 20 September 1981. Illustrated throughout, including team line-ups and diagrams of player positions. Original pictorial wrappers featuring the Sam Maguire Cup and the crests of Kerry and Offaly. A very good copy.

Official programme for the 1981 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, played at Croke Park on 20 September before an attendance of 61,489. Kerry, under the management of Mick O’Dwyer, defeated Offaly by 1-12 to 0-8, with a goal from Jack O’Shea helping secure victory.

Captained by Jimmy Deenihan, Kerry’s celebrated side included Jack O’Shea, Pat Spillane, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston, Ger Power, Mikey Sheehy and John Egan. The victory gave Kerry their fourth consecutive All-Ireland title, completing the four-in-a-row and confirming the side as one of the outstanding teams in the history of Gaelic football. Deenihan subsequently lifted the Sam Maguire Cup.

An attractive original programme from a significant period in Kerry football history, made all the more interesting by the fact that Offaly would famously reverse the result twelve months later, defeating Kerry in the 1982 final and denying them an unprecedented five-in-a-row.

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