The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Ahane and Creggan winning the championships of the other two provinces.
It is commonly believed that Mac Cumhaigh was born in Creggan, County Armagh where a branch of the Uí Néill had been the traditional patrons of the poets under the old order.
Creggan, Derry, a large housing estate in Derry, Northern Ireland
This violence continued to occur up to the early 1990s when violence in the city started to calm and move mainly to Belfast.