death_date icposition icupdate birth_date code nhl club death_place name fullname clyears birth_place county sport icprovince counties icyears icallireland province article_title clcounty irish
26 december 1977 right wing-forward 20:10 , 25 january 2015 4 february 1911 hurling 1 carrickshock kilkenny , ireland jimmy walsh jimmy walsh 1928 -- 1946 ballyhale , county kilkenny , ireland kilkenny hurling 7 kilkenny 1932 -- 1944 4 leinster jimmy walsh -lrb- kilkenny hurler -rrb-
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jimmy walsh -lrb- kilkenny hurler -rrb-

james `` jimmy '' walsh -lrb- 4 february 1911 -- 26 december 1977 -rrb- was an irish hurler who played as a left wing-forward for the kilkenny senior team .
born in ballyhale , county kilkenny , walsh first excelled at hurling in his youth .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he first linked up with the kilkenny senior team .
he made his debut during the 1932 championship .
walsh immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won one all-ireland medals , seven leinster medals and eight national league medals .
the all-ireland-winning captain in 1932 , he was an all-ireland runner-up on two occasions .
as a member of the leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions , walsh won two railway cup medals .
at club level he was a six-time championship medallist with carrickshock .
walsh retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1944 championship .
