1887-1922
Eringo Bragh was founded in 1887 in Clonsilla. One of the earliest fixtures known is that at Porterstown on October 2nd V Wolfe Tones of Bluebell at 12.30. Erin Go Bragh was one of 120 clubs affiliated in Dublinin 1888. William Rogers was listed as club secretary, Paddy Dunne was captain and Laurence Warren vice-captain of the football team. Tommy Murphy, a blacksmith orignally from Kildare, was captain of the hurling team with L. Rooney vice captain. The team played their games in a field owned by Paddy Dunne in Coolmine, competing until 1889.
Erin Go Bragh fielded a single team in the Junior Sunday Football League for the 1904-1905 season playing their matches in the Phoenix Park. The club fielded two football teams in the 1905-1906 season, at Under Junior and Junior level. Erin go Bragh played their games in thePhoenixPark, Dolphins Barn and Lucan. The Junior team were winners of the Junior B Division and overall Sunday Football Junior League runners up receiving a walk over from Stars of Erin in Jones Road(now CrokePark) on July 29th 1906.
The Dublin County Board re-organised both Senior and Junior Leagues in 1906 by grading teams according to divisions. Erin go Bragh were placed in the Intermediate grade for the 1906-1907 season and the club also fielded a minor team. Thomas C. Murphy and Stephen Lynch of Erin go Bragh were selected to play on the Dublin inter league team against a Cork inter league team in a challenge game in May 1907. Thomas C. Murphy was appointed as captain. The game was played at Jones Roadin front of 3,000 people on May 26thending in a 0-6 points draw.Thomas C. Murphy was again captain when Dublin inter League team played a Louth inter league team in Dundalk. A second Erin go Bragh player whose first name is not known but second name was Hennesey also played on the day. Stephen Lynch was selected for a second game against Louth in Jones Roadon October 6th 1907 playing at centre half back.Dublin defeated Louth 0-9 to 1-4.
Erin Go Bragh participated in the Intermediate and Junior C Division in the 1907-1908 season. The Intermediate team were lying in fourth position at the Christmas break in the league having played five games winning four and loosing one to Parnells on a score line of 0-3 to 0-2. Francis Scully was selected for the Dublin inter league team to play Cork on Easter Monday April 20th 1908. George Fagan a founder and president of Erin Go Bragh passed away in 1907. He was a well known worker in the Irish-Ireland movement in the district controlled by the Magh-Liffey sub committee of the Gaelic League in North West Dublin. The club appears to be wrongly reported as being based in Chapelizod but The Freemans Journal. George Fagan was also honorary secretary of the St. Mochtas branch of the Gaelic League. He ws also a founding member of the Wolfe Tones Hurling club in Chapelizod in 1902 and a member of Green Flags during their existence.
Eringo Bragh fielded at Intermediate and Junior Division C level once again for the 1908-1909 season. But sadly appears to have disbanded sometime in either late 1908 or early 1909. Attempts to re organise the club for the 1910-1911 season was mentioned in the Sunday Independent on August 7th 1910 and a notice was placed in The Freemans Journal on Thursday August 4th for a meeting on Friday August 5th 1910. The Dublin Football League was also informed that a single team would be entering the league. The meeting was adjourned and a second meeting scheduled for Wednesday August 10th to make final arrangements for the season and to elect officers.
However attempts to revive the club fell through. The name Erin go Bragh was to remain from the field of play until 1917. Members of theEringo Bragh remained involved in Dublin GAA moving to other clubs. Thomas C. Murphy was appointed as a member of the Classification, Finance and Finance committee for the Dublin Football League. T.C. Murphy, two of the Murrays and Balfe joined Hibernan Knights following the failed revival of the club winning the Intermediate League the same year. T.C. Murphy was elected as Hibernian Knights league delegate, a position he had held with Erin Go Bragh since 1908. Murphy who had been refereeing games since 1905 continued to do so. He went on to be vice chairman and eventually chairman of the league in 1913. Murphy officated Dublins first senior championship 15 a side game at Croke Park.
Erin Go Bragh re-organised in 1917 and fielded a single team in the Junior Football League for the 1917-1918 season. They mainly played their games in the Phoenix Park. They fielded two teams for the 1918-1919 season. Along with a junior football team they also fielded at minor grade.
The Erin go Bragh Harriers were a cross country team set up in 1919 .Their formation coincided with the revival of the Leinster athletic and cycling championships which had lapsed over previous years. The team entered the annual GAA novices cross country championship organised by the Dublin County Board at Santry, over 4 miles on March 30th 1919. The team was made up of Thomas Callaghan, C. Samon, T. Hughes, Peter Balfe, J. Devlin, Henry Callaghan, Patrick Butler, M.J. Kennedy, James Mangan, John Balfe, Joseph Balfe, Thomas C. Murphy and B. Madden.
The organisation of the administration of Gaelic games in Dublin underwent a reformation in 1919. Thomas C. Murphy was elected as the first chairman of the Junior Board at its inaugural meeting in 1919 in which 100 clubs attended.
The Erin Go Bragh cross country team won the county Dublin novices championship held in Larkfield, Kimmage road on April 3rd with four team members finishing in the top five.
In 1922 Erin Go Bragh did not field any teams at Junior and minor football or junior hurling.
1943-1963
On Thursday November 25th 1943 the Irish press contained an article reporting the details of the annual convention of the Dublin Junior football board.
The club appears to have disbanded sometime again after 1947. The club was reorganised again in the 1950s by Father Redmond parish priest in Porterstown.
The club won a minor league in 1963 before disbanding again in the early 1960s.
Re-emergence of Erin go Bragh 1986
The name Erin Go Bragh emerged once again in 1986 in Dromheath. The club was reorganised by a number of people who left St. Brigids.
The club moved to Porterstown Park in Clonsilla and expanded at under age level with teams at Under 16 and minor level in 1996.
In early September 2005 Erin Go Bragh also introduced hurling/camogie to the area at underage.
Today Erin Go Bragh fields underage teams at Under 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and we also have a nursery for children aged 4-7.
