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{{Short description|Gaelic football player and sports administrator}}
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'''Séamus Gardiner''' (1894 – 10 January 1976), was the 14th [[President of the Gaelic Athletic Association|president]] of the [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] (1943–1946).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gaa.ie/about-the-gaa/gaa-history/gaa-presidents/ |title=Gaa Presidents | GAA History | About the GAA | GAA |access-date=2014-09-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503201547/http://gaa.ie/about-the-gaa/gaa-history/gaa-presidents/ |archive-date=2012-05-03 }}</ref>
Born in Clare, he played football for [[University College Dublin|UCD]] while studying there
He played on the Clare senior team, and in 1924 was part of a Munster team that participated in an inter-provincial contest to choose a team for the Tailteann Games.<ref name="sking">{{cite web| url = http://www.seamusjking.com/Articles%20Full/The_Gardiner_Connection.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141225140331/http://www.seamusjking.com/Articles%20Full/The_Gardiner_Connection.html| archive-date = 2014-12-25| title = The Gardiner Connection}} </ref>
Settling in Borrisokane, he became involved in the local GAA club, representing it at board meetings, before going on to become Chairman of the board, from 1933 to 1938. In 1940, he was elected vice-chairman of the Munster Council, and chairman in 1940.▼
▲Settling in [[Borrisokane]], he became involved in the local GAA club, representing it at board meetings, before going on to become
During Gardiner’s presidency, relationships began to renew with the President of Ireland for the first time since Douglas Hyde was removed as a patron.<ref>http://www.thefreekick.com/board/index.php?threads/the-president-vs-the-gga.16419/</ref>▼
▲During
Also during Gardiner’s presidency, the Minister of Defence opened up the army to sports other than Gaelic Games, which Gardiner called “a retrograde step”, and that the GAA were “entitled to the same treatment for Gaelic games as they had for the past 20 years”.<ref>http://www.theirishstory.com/2012/08/21/as-a-gael-should-meet-gaels-the-gaelic-athletic-association-in-the-irish-free-state/</ref>▼
▲Also during
Two years after his death, in 1978 the Séamus Gardiner Memorial Park was renamed in his honour.▼
▲Two years after his death, in 1978 the Séamus Gardiner Memorial Park was renamed in his honour.<ref name="sking" />
Gardiner's great-granddaughters, [[Emer Lucey]] and [[Ciara Lucey]], played senior [[camogie]] for [[Ballyboden St Enda's GAA|Ballyboden St Enda's]] and [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]].<ref name="independent111105">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/sport/other-sports/dublin-girls-to-battle-for-an-allstar-27770961.html|title=Dublin girls to battle for an All-Star|publisher=www.independent.ie|access-date=23 November 2018|date=11 November 2005}}</ref><ref name="hoganstand101005">{{cite web|url=http://hoganstand.com/article/index/52419|title=Dublin claim camogie crown|publisher=hoganstand.com|access-date=23 November 2018|date=10 October 2005}}</ref><ref name="herald211008">{{cite news|url=https://www.herald.ie/sport/gaa/sister-act-as-emer-repeats-ciaras-heroics-27889437.html|title=Sister act as Emer repeats Ciara's heroics|publisher=www.herald.ie|access-date=24 November 2018|date=21 October 2008}}</ref>
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