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{{Short description|Defunct Irish rugby union club, based in Belfast}}
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| union = [[Irish Rugby Football Union|IRFU]]<br />[[Ulster Rugby|Ulster]]
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| founded = {{start date and age|1868}}
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| ground = Ormeau Road<br />[[Belfast]]
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'''North of Ireland Football Club''' is a former Irish [[rugby union]] club that was based in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - [[Dublin University Football Club|Dublin University]] and [[Wanderers F.C. Dublin(rugby union)|Wanderers]] - were formed earlier anywhere else in all [[Ireland]] .<ref>[http://www.irishrugby.ie/300_285.php www.irishrugby.ie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212215537/http://www.irishrugby.ie/300_285.php |date=2013-12-12 }}</ref><ref name="The Ireland Rugby Miscellany 2007">''The Ireland Rugby Miscellany'' (2007): Ciaran Cronin</ref>. It was founded in 1868 by members of North of Ireland Cricket Club .<ref>[{{cite journal |first=David |last=Hassan |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/FootballStudies/2003/FS0601d.pdf |title=Rugby Union, Irish www.la84foundation.orgNationalism and National pgIdentity in Northern Ireland |journal=Football Studies |issue=1 |date=2003 |volume=6] |publisher=University of Ulster, Jordanstown}}</ref>. NIFC also played in the first recorded rugby game in [[Ulster]] when they played a 20-a-side match against [[Queen's University RFC]].
 
Throughout its history, NIFC was one of the most successful clubs in Ulster rugby, winning eighteen [[Ulster Senior League (rugby union)|Ulster Senior League]] titles and eighteen [[Ulster Senior Cup]] titles. They also played several seasons in the [[AIB League]] before merging with [[Collegians (Belfast)|Collegians]] in 1999 to form [[Belfast Harlequins]] .<ref>[{{cite web|url=http://www.irishrugby.ie/23_7866.php?PHPSESSID=2ef47a7b8ce5adc00dfe62c38c3d6740 |title=www.irishrugby.ie]}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>.
 
The club left its historic home on the Ormeau Road (one of the earliest international rugby venues in Ireland<ref>See references to Ireland's matches against Scotland from 1877 to 1889: [http://www.irishrugby.ie/18104_18114.php Ireland v Scotland - Head to Head Statistics] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120904033126/http://www.irishrugby.ie/18104_18114.php |date=2012-09-04 }}</ref>) after a series of perceived sectarian arson attacks, including the burning of its pavilion. The club, with a mainly Protestant membership, was perceived as being "isolated in a zone of working-class nationalism".<ref>D. Sharrock, ‘Goodbye to all that, as the Belfast sporting club where W.G. Grace swung his bat uproots for Protestant sanctuary’, The Guardian, 13 August 1997, p. 6.</ref><ref>{{cite Citedjournal in|first=Mike |last= Cronin, M|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/ISS/ISS2201/ISS2201d.pdf (2000), |title="Catholics and Sport in Northern Ireland: Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness?", ''|journal=International Sports Studies'', Volume|issue=1 22,|date=200o Number|volume=2 1,|publisher=Logos 2000.Verlag AvailableBerlin atGmbH http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/ISS/ISS2201/ISS2201d.pdf}}</ref>
 
==Notable players==
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* [[Stephen Blake-Knox]]
* [[Robert Alexander (rugby player and cricketer)|Robert Alexander]]
* Norman BrandBrann
* [[Ian Davidson (rugby union)|Ian Davidson]]
* [[Thomas Gisborne Gordon]], the only one handed player in international rugby.<ref name = "Planet Rugby">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0503/1224269590998.html|title=Planet rugby|first=John |last=O'Sullivan|newspaper=[[Irish Times]]|date=3 May 2010}}</ref>
* [[Gordon Hamilton]] <ref>[http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/worldcup2007/moments1991.html www.rte.ie]</ref>
* [[Gordon Hamilton (rugby union)|Gordon Hamilton]]<ref>{{cite news |first=Brendan |last=Cole |url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/worldcup2007/moments1991.html |title=RTÉ Sport: 1991: Gordon Hamilton Scores |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919040641/http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/worldcup2007/moments1991.html |archive-date=19 September 2007 |publisher=[[RTÉ]] |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[David Hewitt (rugby footballer born 1939)|David Hewitt]]
*R.D. Scott
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* [[Jack Kyle]]
* [[Mike Gibson (rugby playerunion)|Mike Gibson]]
* A.N.[[Arthur Norman McClinton]]
* Harry Neill <ref>[{{cite web|url=http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsN.htm |title=ulsterbiography.co.uk|website=www.ulsterbiography.co.uk]|access-date=2008-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705103505/http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsN.htm|archive-date=2008-07-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Albert Stewart (rugby player)|Albert Stewart]]
* [[Dolway Walkington]]
* Hugh Cunningham Kelly (Captain)
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===British and Irish Lions===
The following NIFC players also represented the [[British and Irish Lions]] .<ref>'' name="The Ireland Rugby Miscellany'' (2007): Ciaran Cronin<"/ref>.
 
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* [[Tom McGown]]: [[1899 British Lions tour to Australia|1899]]
* [[Ian Davidson (rugby union)|Ian Davidson]]: [[1903 British Lions tour to South Africa|1903]]
* A.N.[[Arthur Norman McClinton]]: [[1910 British Lions tour to South Africa|1910]]
* Norman BrandBrann: [[1924 British Lions tour to South Africa|1924]]
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* [[Robert Alexander (rugby player and cricketer)|Robert Alexander]]: [[1938 British Lions tour to South Africa|1938]]
* [[Jack Kyle]]: [[1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia|1950]]
* [[David Hewitt (rugby footballer born 1939)|David Hewitt]]: [[1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand|1959]], [[1962 British Lions tour to South Africa|1962]]
* [[Mike Gibson (rugby playerunion)|Mike Gibson]]: [[1966 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand|1966]], [[1968 British Lions tour to South Africa|1968]], [[1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand|1971]], [[1974 British Lions tour to South Africa|1974]], [[1977 British Lions tour to New Zealand|1977]]
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===[[Ireland cricket team]]===
The following NIFC players also represented [[Ireland cricket team|Ireland]] at cricket.
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==Honours==
 
*[[All-Ireland Cup (rugby union)|All-Ireland Cup]]: 1
*'''[[AIB Division Three]]'''
**1934-35
**''Winners'': 1994-95: '''1'''
*'''[[Ulster Senior LeagueCup (rugby union)|Ulster Senior LeagueCup]]''': 18
** 1884–85, 1892–93, 1893–94, 1894–95, 1895–96, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1901–02, 1907–08, 1919–20, 1929–30, 1934–35, 1938–39, 1954–55, 1968–69, 1972–73
**''Winners'': 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1909, 1921, 1927, 1946, 1955, 1959, 1966, 1992: '''18'''
*''' [[Ulster Senior CupLeague (rugby union)|Ulster Senior League]]''': 18 (1 shared)
** 1891–92, 1892–93, 1893–94, 1894–95, 1895–96, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1901–02, 1908–09, 1920–21, 1926-27 (shared), 1945–46, 1954–55, 1958–59, 1965–66, 1991–92
**''Winners'': 1885, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1908, 1920, 1930, 1935, 1939, 1955, 1969, 1973: '''18'''
*''' [[Ulster Junior Cup]]''': 9▼
**''Runners Up'' : 1887, 1903, 1906, 1909, 1911, 1921, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1971, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1992: '''14'''
** †1894-95, †1906-07, †1907-08, †1908-09, †1935-36, †1953-54, †1956-57, †1962-63, †1984-85
▲*''' [[Ulster Junior Cup]]'''
 
**''Winners'': 1895, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1936, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1985: '''9'''
† Won by 2nd XV
**''Runners Up'' : 1896, 1899, 1902, 1924, 1927, 1952, 1962, 1976 : '''8'''
 
==References==
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{{Irish Rugby Football Union Founding Members}}
 
[[Category:SportsRugby clubs established in 1868]]
[[Category:Irish rugbyRugby union teams in Ireland]]
[[Category:Northern Irish rugbyRugby union clubs in Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:Belfast Harlequins]]
[[Category:Rugby union clubs in County Antrim]]
[[Category:1868 establishments in Ireland]]
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