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| name = de Courcy Ireland
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| country = Ireland
| fullname = de Courcy Ireland
| birth_date = 1 August 1873
| birth_place = [[Hinthada|Henzada]], [[British rule in Burma|British Burma]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1915|1|28|1873|8|1}}
| death_place = [[British Hong Kong]] or [[Beijing|Peking]],<br>[[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1897/98
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 15
| bat avg1 = 15.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 8
| deliveries1 = 15
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 12 October
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/29554.html Cricinfo
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'''de Courcy Ireland''' (1 August 1873 – 28 January 1915) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Indian Army]] officer.

The son of William de Courcy Ireland, a civil servant, he was born on 1 August 1873 on [[Hinthada|Henzada]] in [[British rule in Burma|British Burma]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[[Pen and Sword]]|isbn=978-1473864191|pages=429–30}}</ref> He was educated in both Ireland and Germany, before attending the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] from which he graduated into the [[Royal Fusiliers]] as a [[Second_lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_other_Commonwealth_countries|second lieutenant]] December 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26354|date=16 December 1892|page=7397}}</ref> He transferred to the [[Indian Staff Corps]] in July 1897, at which point he was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26893|date=21 September 1897|page=5215}}</ref> He took part in the 1897 [[Tirah campaign]] against the revolting [[Afridi|Afridi tribe]] in the [[North-West Frontier Province]].<ref name="BOOK"/> In September of the same year, Ireland made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in the 1897/98 [[Bombay_Quadrangular#Presidency_Match|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13777/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by de Courcy Ireland |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-10-12 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 8 runs by [[Nasarvanji Bapasola]] in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was [[not out]] on 7, despite having come into bat at number four.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4908.html |title=Europeans v Parsees, 1897/98 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-10-12 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Later serving with the [[36th Sikhs]], he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in December 1910, having been made a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] prior to this.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28463|date=7 February 1911|page=956}}</ref> He married Gabrielle Bryan in December 1910, with the couple residing in England at [[Buckfastleigh|Buckfastleigh, Devon]]. Their son, [[John de Courcy Ireland]], would become a renowned maritime historian.<ref name="BOOK"/> He was posted to the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] in June 1914, where he stationed at the onset of the [[First World War]]. Ireland died from [[fever]] in January 1915 at either [[British Hong Kong]] or [[Beijing|Peking]].<ref name="BOOK"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=29554}}

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[[Category:1873 births]]
[[Category:1915 deaths]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Royal Fusiliers officers]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Tirah campaign]]
[[Category:Irish cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Disease-related deaths in Hong Kong]]

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