Free State Dual Internationals
The vast majority of the players involved were born in what is now the Republic of Ireland and were selected to play for the IFA XI. The earliest dual internationals - Dinny Hannon, Bill Lacey, Patsy Gallacher, Mick O'Brien, Tom Farquharson, Frank Collins and Ed Brookes - all initially represented the IFA XI before the FAI began organising a team. After 1924 they all went onto played for the FAI XI.
Dinny Hannon became the first ever dual Irish international in 1924 when he played for the Irish Free State at the 1924 Olympic Games, playing against Bulgaria in their first ever senior international on May 28. He had previously made 6 appearances for the IFA XI between 1908 and 1913.
| Name | IFA XI | FAI XI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Apps | Goals | Years | Apps | Goals | |
| Dinny Hannon | 1908–1913 | 6 | 1 | 1924 | 2 | 0 |
| Bill Lacey | 1909–1924 | 23 | 3 | 1927–1930 | 3 | 1 |
| Patsy Gallacher | 1919–1927 | 11 | 0 | 1931 | 1 | 0 |
| Ed Brookes | 1920 | 1 | 0 | 1924 | 1 | 3 |
| Mick O'Brien | 1921–1927 | 10 | 0 | 1927–1932 | 4 | 0 |
| Frank Collins | 1922 | 1 | 0 | 1924–1927 | 2 | 0 |
| Tom Farquharson | 1923–1925 | 7 | 0 | 1929–1931 | 4 | 0 |
| Christy Martin | 1925 | 1 | 0 | 1927 | 1 | 0 |
| Jimmy Dunne | 1928–1932 | 7 | 4 | 1930–1939 | 15 | 13 |
| Harry Duggan | 1929–1935 | 8 | 0 | 1927–1937 | 5 | 1 |
| Peter Kavanagh | 1929 | 1 | 0 | 1931 | 2 | 0 |
| Jimmy Kelly | 1931–1936 | 11 | 4 | 1932–1936 | 5 | 2 |
| Alex Stevenson | 1933–1947 | 19 | 5 | 1932–1948 | 7 | 0 |
| Paddy Moore | 1932 | 1 | 0 | 1931–1936 | 9 | 7 |
| Tommy Breen | 1935–1946 | 13 | 0 | 1937–1947 | 5 | 0 |
| Tom Davis | 1936 | 1 | 1 | 1936–1938 | 4 | 4 |
| Kevin O'Flanagan | 1946 | 2 | 0 | 1937–1947 | 10 | 3 |
| Johnny Carey | 1946–1949 | 9 | 0 | 1937–1952 | 27 | 3 |
| Owen Madden | 1937 | 1 | 0 | 1936 | 1 | 1 |
| Bill Hayes | 1937–1938 | 4 | 0 | 1946–1947 | 2 | 0 |
| Bill Gorman | 1946–1948 | 4 | 0 | 1936–1947 | 13 | 0 |
| Paddy Farrell | 1938 | 1 | 0 | 1937 | 2 | 0 |
| Matt O'Mahoney | 1938 | 1 | 0 | 1938–1939 | 6 | 0 |
| Ned Weir | 1939 | 1 | 0 | 1939 | 3 | 0 |
| Billy Walsh | 1944–1948 | 6 | 0 | 1946–1950 | 9 | 0 |
| Davy Walsh | 1946–1950 | 11 | 7 | 1946–1953 | 20 | 5 |
| Tom Aherne | 1946–1950 | 6 | 0 | 1946–1953 | 16 | 0 |
| Peter Farrell | 1946–1950 | 7 | 0 | 1946–1953 | 28 | 3 |
| Tommy Eglington | 1946–1948 | 6 | 0 | 1946–1953 | 24 | 2 |
| Con Martin | 1946–1950 | 6 | 0 | 1946–1956 | 30 | 6 |
| Jackie O'Driscoll | 1948–1949 | 3 | 0 | 1948–1949 | 3 | 0 |
| Rory Keane | 1948 | 1 | 0 | 1948–1949 | 4 | 0 |
| Reg Ryan | 1950 | 1 | 0 | 1946–1953 | 16 | 3 |
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Famous quotes containing the words free, state and/or dual:
“I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.”
—Javier Pérez De Cuéllar (b. 1920)
“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“Thee for my recitative,
Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
declining,
Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
convulsive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)