The reports on the 1978 Irish championship posted here over the past couple of years were unusually difficult to compile, because many of the pairings and results were unknown. Apart from leading to many missing entries in the tables, this meant that the automated routines didn’t work, and the tables had to be assembled by hand, a laborious task.
Some time ago, however, John Gibson provided the full set of pairings and results, for which many thanks, and I have now compiled these into a revised full report. It’s incredible that material like this can emerge many decades after events.
The previous, incomplete, pairings and results can be seen here. There were errors in the reconstructed first round, which assumed that all players played, in rating-seeded order; in fact, Ray Devenney and William J. Collins took first round ½-point byes. Also, contemporary newspaper reports and the ICU tournament pages gave Seán Galligan’s final total as 3½, whereas John’s records show him as finishing on 4. On the basis that he had finished on 3½, the report previously inferred that he had lost his last round instead of drawing.
The revised full report can be seen here.