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Cricket in Ireland — The Phoenix Cricket Club and the Game's Early Growth, 1830s–1840s
Irish cricket clubs and visiting English sides
1842-06-01
The Phoenix Cricket Club, founded in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1830, became the centre of Irish cricket through the 1840s and hosted visits from leading English sides including All-England Eleven fixtures in the late 1840s. Cricket in Ireland in this era was primarily an Anglo-Irish and military game, concentrated in Dublin and the garrison towns, but the Phoenix Club's ambition and the quality of its ground pointed toward a broader Irish cricket future.
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