who first championed the phrase once an Olympian, always an Olympian, and in the soon-to-be 100 years of Ireland’s participation in thehas initiated a series of events to mark that centenary, beginning with an official list of the now 911 Irish names who have represented Ireland at the Olympics since 1924, firstly as the Irish Free State, just 17 months after it was established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1922.
Starting with the 1924 Games, also staged in Paris, Ireland has now participated at 22 Summer Games and eight Winter Games since 1924. During that period, a total of 38 Olympic medals have been won , the latest being the gold medal won by Kellie Harrington in the women’s lightweight boxing category in Tokyo.
For Paris 1924, which took place from May 20th right through to October 28th, Ireland was represented by a team of 48 athletes, 46 men and two women, in five sports: athletics, water polo, boxing, football and tennis plus the arts and literature events. The two women were Phoebe Blair-White and Hilda Wallis, both in the tennis events.
Of the eight artistic entries, two won medals: the year before, in 1923, Jack B Yeats witnessed the first Liffey Swim in Dublin, and captured the moment with his painting of eager spectators leaning over the river walls for a glimpse of the swimmers below. Then in a reportedly tight race for the literature medals, poet and doctor Oliver St John Gogarty won bronze for his Ode to the Tailteann Games.
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