Provincial
Stakelum also lined out with Munster in the inter-provincial hurling championship where he played alongside his championship rivals Christy Ring, Tom Cheasty and Jimmy Smyth. He first tasted success with his province in 1950 as Munster defeated Leinster to take the Railway Cup title. Both Munster and Leinster qualified for the Railway Cup final again in 1951. With Stakelum playing a key role Munster claimed a second consecutive victory over their great rivals. 1952 saw the Munster men capture a third successive title, this time following a victory over Connacht. In 1953 it was four in-a-row for Stakelum and for Munster as Leinster were accounted for once again. After a defeat by Leinster in the Railway Cup final of 1954 Stakelum won a fifth title in 1955 after Connacht were beaten once again. In 1957 Stakelum captured a final Railway Cup medal as MUnster accounted for Leinster once again.
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Famous quotes containing the word provincial:
“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)