The search for Ireland’s greatest tennis player

Mabel Cahill could not be found.

The search for Ireland’s greatest tennis player
Fri, 08 Sep, 2017 - 01:00
Paul Rouse
Paul Rouse
Paul Rouse is an historian, author, broadcaster… and former Offaly football boss. He specialises in sport and Irish culture.

Back in the 1890s, she won five US Open Tennis championships. But then Mabel Cahill fell off the cliff of history.

The speculation was that she had left America for England later in the 1890s.

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