List of Ireland national rugby union players

List of Ireland national rugby union players is a list of men who have played for the Ireland national rugby union team.

Note the list only includes men who have played in a Test match (which includes those who played against the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team)

Those who represented the British and Irish Lions but were never capped for Ireland are not included - for example William Joseph Ashby was part of the first Lions team to tour South Africa in 1910 but was never capped for Ireland.
Those who represented Ireland in matches where no caps were awarded are not included - for example James Myles represented Ireland during the 1899 Ireland rugby union tour of Canada but was never capped for Ireland.
On 16 April 2023 the IRFU announced it had decided to award caps to 12 players who featured for Ireland but were not awarded caps at the time for games which were not then recognised as International Test Matches.^[1]^[2]

List

Name	Number	Opponent	Date of debut	Caps
Robert Walkington	1	England	15/02/1875	10
Henry Lawrence Cox	2	England	15/02/1875	4
Richard J. Bell	3	England	15/02/1875	2
Abraham Cronyn	4	England	15/02/1875	3
John Thomas Myles	5	England	15/02/1875	1
Richard Galbraith	6	England	15/02/1875	3
Edward Nangle MacIlwaine	7	England	15/02/1875	2
William Stewart Allen	8	England	15/02/1875	1
Robert Maude Maginniss	9	England	15/02/1875	2
Abram Combe	10	England	15/02/1875	1
Francis Thomas Hewson	11	England	15/02/1875	1
George A. Andrews	12	England	15/02/1875	2
Edgar Galbraith	13	England	15/02/1875	1
George Stack	14	England	15/02/1875	1
William Henry Ashe	15	England	15/02/1875	3
Sandy MacDonald	16	England	15/02/1875	13
Maurice Barlow	17	England	15/02/1875	1
Henry Deans Walsh	18	England	15/02/1875	2
William Gaffikin	19	England	15/02/1875	1
Brabazon Casement	20	England	15/02/1875	3
Hamilton Moore	21	England	13/12/1875	2
Waller Hobson	22	England	13/12/1875	1
James Ireland	23	England	13/12/1875	2
William Andrew Cuscaden	24	England	13/12/1875	1
R. Greer	25	England	13/12/1875	1
Ashley John Westby	26	England	13/12/1875	1
William L. Finlay	27	England	13/12/1875	2
David Arnott	28	England	13/12/1875	1
Henry Carr Brown	29	England	05/02/1877	2
Frederick Kidd	30	England	05/02/1877	3
Augustus Mayberry Whitestone	31	England	05/02/1877	5
Thomas Gisborne Gordon	32	England	05/02/1877	3
Henry Jackson	33	England	05/02/1877	1
William Henry Wilson	34	England	05/02/1877	2
Henry Gray Edwards	35	England	05/02/1877	2
Hugh Kelly	36	England	05/02/1877	6
Thomas Dickson Brown	37	England	05/02/1877	2
William Hamilton	38	England	05/02/1877	1
George Melville Shaw	39	Scotland	19/02/1877	1
James Heron	40	Scotland	19/02/1877	2