Series began (as the “All-Ireland Secondary Schoolboys’ Championship”) in 1948.
Affiliations listed are clubs except where a suffix specifies a school.
- 1948-1949
- 1948 Geoffrey Hand (Blackrock College (Dublin))
- 1949 Michael Fagan (Westland Row C.B.S. (Dublin))
- 1950-1959
- 1950 Eugene Courtney (Royal Belfast Academical Institution)
- 1951 Sam Ferris (Grosvenor High School (Belfast))
- 1952 Alex Montwill (Westland Row C.B.S. (Dublin))
- 1953 S. H. Johnston
- 1954 Richard Grogan (Synge Street C.B.S. (Dublin)) (on tie-break; 1st-2nd Dónal Déiseach)
- 1955 Dónal Déiseach (Coláiste Mhuire (Dublin))
- 1956 Michael McMahon (O’Connell’s School (Dublin))
- 1957 John McMahon (O’Connell’s School (Dublin)) (on tie-break; 1st-3rd Art Coldrick, Pat Deasy)
- 1958 Harry Harte (Belfast High School)
- 1959 Art Coldrick (O’Connell’s School (Dublin))
- 1960-1969
- 1960 J. Brian Tomson (on tie-break)
- 1961 Seán Corcoran (Synge Street C.B.S. (Dublin))
- 1962 Brian Kerr
- 1963 Brian Kerr (Methodist College (Belfast))
- 1964 Raphael Farina (Synge Street C.B.S. (Dublin)) (on tie-break)
- 1965 Tony Cafferky (Mungret College (Limerick))
- 1966 John Moles (after playoff)
- 1967 John Moles (after playoff)
- 1968 Paul Henry (St. Malachy’s College (Belfast))
- 1969 David Wilson (Methodist College (Belfast))
- 1970-1979
- 1970 Bernard Kernan (Oatlands College (Dublin) & Dublin) (on tiebreak)
- 1971 Bernard Kernan (Oatlands College (Dublin) & Dublin)
- 1972 Rodney Nixon (Mountjoy School (Dublin)), Colm Quigley (C.B.S. Cork)
- 1973 Rodney Nixon (Mountjoy School (Dublin) & Dublin)
- 1974 Paul Delaney (Kevin Barry) (on tie-break)
- 1975 Rolande Anderson (Mountjoy School (Dublin)) and/or Pádraig O’Toole (Coláiste Eoin (Dublin)) (playoff scheduled; result unknown)
- 1976 Colm Barry (Terenure College (Dublin))
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1976: Ann Delaney (St. Monica’s (Dublin))
- 1977 David Dunne (Rathmines) (on tiebreak)
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1977: Ann Delaney (Edenmore)
- 1978 Keith Allen (Fisherwick)
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1978: April Cronin
- 1979 Keith Allen, Seán Coffey (Oatlands College (Dublin)) & Dundrum), John Delaney
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1979: Mairéad Ní Siochrú (Scoil Caitríona (Dublin)), Miriam Woods (Our Lady’s College (Drogheda) & Drogheda)
- 1980-1989
- 1980 Keith Allen (Fisherwick) and/or John R. Kennedy (Fisherwick)
- 1981 Seán Coffey (Oatlands College (Dublin) & Dundrum)
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1981: Maeve Delaney
- 1982 Craig McDowell (Belfast Royal Academy)
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1982: Helen Gore
- 1983 Eddie Grant (Beneavin College (Dublin) & Phibsboro)
- Irish Schoolgirls’ Championship 1983: Maeve Delaney
- 1984 Kilian Hynes
- 1985 T. Brown
- 1986 Eric McMahon
- 1987 J. Buckley
- 1988 J. Cairns, P. Moclair, J. Joyce, D. Simpson (?)
- 1989 Roger Beckett (Methodist College (Belfast) & Fisherwick)
- 1990-1999
- 1990 Richard McMaster
- 1991 M. Given
- 1992 Colm Darby (Stratford College (Dublin))
- 1993 Stephen Gillen and/or Adrian Gillen
- 1994 Adrian Gillen
- 1995 Adrian Gillen
- 1996 Unknown
- 1997 Eoin Spring
- 1998 Adam Kelly (Gonzaga College (Dublin))*
- 1999 Sam Collins (Gonzaga College (Dublin))
- 2000-2009
- 2000 John P. A. Kennedy
- 2001 John P. A. Kennedy
- 2002 Stephen Stokes*
- 2003 Alex Lopez
- 2004 Alex Lopez
- 2005 Matthew Dignam
- 2006 Karl McPhillips
- 2007 Jan Mueller
- 2008 Dara Murphy*
- 2009 Sam Osborne
- 2010—2019
- 2010 Ryan-Rhys Griffiths
- 2011 Ryan-Rhys Griffiths
- 2012 Karina Kruk (Aquinas Grammar School (Belfast))
- 2013 Hugh Doyle (C.B.C. Cork & Cork)
- 2014 Ben Cullen (Gonzaga College (Dublin) & Gonzaga)
- 2015 Tom O’Gorman (St. Andrew’s College (Dublin) & Dún Laoghaire)
- 2016 Conor O’Donnell (Gonzaga College (Dublin) & Gonzaga)
- 2017 Denis Ruchko (Galway)
- 2018 Peter Carroll (Gonzaga College (Dublin) & Gonzaga)
- 2019 Jacob Flynn (Malahide) (after playoff)
- 2020—
- 2020 No championship
- 2021 Oisín O’Cuilleanain
- 2022 Denis Ruchko (Galway)
* = combined U19/U16 championship in which U19 winner finished behind U16 winner.
- References:
- Irish Junior Championships page, David McAlister’s Irish Chess History website (winners and totals for all championships, 1948-2018)
- Tournament summaries page, IRLchess (references for some years)
- Irish Independent, April 4, 1949 p. 8 (1949 winner’s school) and April 22, 1949 p. 8 (1949 results).
- Irish Independent, July 8, 1950 p. 8 and Irish Press, July 8, 1950 p. 9 (1950 winner’s school).
- Sunday Independent, April 29, 1951 p. 8 (1951 winner’s school).
- Irish Independent, January 3, 1952 p. 7 (1952 winner’s school) and Evening Herald, July 5, 1952 p. 8 (1952 winner).
- Irish Independent, April 12, 1958 p. 15 and Irish Times, April 19, 1958 p. 9 (1958 results); Cork Examiner, July 15, 1958 p. 10 (1958 winner’s school).
- Irish Press, April 26, 1965 p. 12 (1965 results).
- Irish Times, April 26, 1965 p. 14 (1965 winner’s school).
- Cork Examiner, April 6, 1967 p. 11 (1967 results, excluding playoff).
- Belfast News Letter, 23 April 1982 p. 1 (1982 winner full name and school affiliation, plus photo)
- Sunday Independent, April 24, 1983 p. 12 (1983 results, winner’s school).
- Belfast Telegraph, 26 January 1989 p. 3 (1989 winner’s school and club affilitaion, plus photo)
- CHESS IRELAND – NEWS, Mar-Jun 2000 (John Hurley) (via the Wayback Machine)
- All Ireland U19 Chess Champion, April 11, 2013, C.B.C. Cork web pages (news item on 2013 winner, plus school affiliation)
- Tom O’Gorman – Irish U19 Champion, St. Andrew’s College web pages, April 2015
- Peter Carroll becomes Irish U19 Chess Champion, Gonzaga College S.J. web pages, April 9, 2018 (photo of 2014 winner, list of all previous Gonzaga College winners)
- Irish Junior Chess Championship 2021 – Results, ‘Venkat’, ICU web pages, 6 November 2021 (re 2021 winner)
- Ratings report, ICU ratings web pages (re 2022 winner)
Last updated November 28, 2022.