{{short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Use Irish English|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox Gaelic Athletic Association player | code = Football | sport = Gaelic Football | image = | name = Jerry Beckett | irish = Diarmaid Beicéid | feet = | inches = | occupation = National school teacher | county = Cork | province = Munster | club = Lees | clubs = | clyears = | clapps(points) = | clcounty = 5 | clprovince = | clallireland = | counties = Cork | icposition = Forward | icyears = 1907-1917 | icapps(points) = 15 (1-02) | icprovince = 2 | icallireland = 1 | nfl = | allstars = | clupdate = | icupdate = 23:20, 10 April 2012 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1886|6|4}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1943|5|30|1886|6|4}} | birth_place = Cromane, County Kerry, Ireland | death_place = Glanmire, County Kerry, Ireland }} '''Jeremiah Alphonsus Beckett''' (4 June 1886 – 30 May 1943), better known as '''Jerry Beckett''', was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a forward for the Cork senior team.
Beckett made his first appearance for the team during the 1907 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen for the following ten years. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and two Munster medals.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://munster.gaa.ie/history/sf_teams/|title=Munster Senior Football Winning Teams|publisher=Munster GAA website|access-date=10 April 2012|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412221359/http://munster.gaa.ie/history/sf_teams/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
At club level Beckett was a multiple county senior championship medal winner with Lees.{{fact|date=June 2021}}
Beckett's son, Derry, was a dual All-Ireland medal winner with Cork in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.carlowpeople.ie/sport/gaelic-football/the-most-famous-challenge-match-in-carlow-gaa-history-2655639.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730144052/http://www.carlowpeople.ie/sport/gaelic-football/the-most-famous-challenge-match-in-carlow-gaa-history-2655639.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2012 |title=The most famous challenge match in Carlow GAA history |date=24 May 2011 |publisher=Carlow People |access-date=10 April 2012 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Cork Football Team 1907}} {{Cork Football Team 1911}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beckett, Jerry}} Category:1886 births Category:1943 deaths Category:Nils Gaelic footballers Category:Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers Category:Irish schoolteachers Category:Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football) Category:People from the Iveragh Peninsula