1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Bc5 5. c3 d6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Bb4+ 8. Nc3 b5 9. Bb3 h6 10. O-O Nf6 11. e5 dxe5 12. dxe5 Nh7 13. Qxd8+ Nxd8 14. Nd5 Ba5 15. Bd2 Bb6 16. Rfc1 Ne6 17. Bb4 Bb7 18. Nxb6 cxb6 19. a4 bxa4 20. Bxa4+ b5 21. Bxb5+ axb5 22. Rxa8+ Bxa8 23. Rc8+ Nd8 24. Rxa8 Kd7 25. Nd4 Re8 26. f4 Ne6 27. Ra7+ Kc8 28. Nxe6 fxe6 29. Rxg7 Nf8 30. Rg8

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Source(s): Evening Herald, April 21, 1934 p. 4 and April 28, 1934 p. 7.

Event information: Irish Independent, January 12, 1933 p. 13, Irish Press, January 12, 1933 p. 8 and Evening Herald, January 30, 1933 p. 3 (probable match scorecard); season results, IRLchess.

Note: The source gives the game as from ‘an Armstrong Cup match’, specifying the clubs but not the season. The players do not seem to have met in the 1933-34 Armstrong Cup, and Colmcille did not play in the Armstrong before 1932-33, so the game must have occurred in the 1932-33 season. McCluskey beat O'Nolan in the match on January 10, 1933. No record is available of the return match; it's possible the game is from that one.

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