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On 1 August 1887, he set the Irish Native Record for 100 yards of 10.2 seconds at the GAA Championships held at the County Kerry
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In 1892, Daniel Delany Bulger was admitted a member of the Dublin Stock
Exchange, and taken into partnership by his father. He married his first wife Maria Frances Daly on 18 January 1893 at St. Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street in Dublin. Around 1900, they moved to London, where she
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of the I.A.A.A. Competitions' Committee attended the
Congress in Paris, as representatives of the I.A.A.A. This international congress led to the establishment of the Olympic Games of the Modern Era, the creation of the International Olympic Committee and the decision to hold the inaugural Olympic
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His achievements included multiple Irish championships in each of the 100 yards, 220 yards, 120 yards hurdles, and long jump, as well as
British championships in the long jump and 120 yards hurdles. He introduced the crouch start into Irish sprinting.
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