[1] Ryan won six All-Ireland Senior Football medals with Kerry over his ten-year career and received favourable reviews.

Reports of the 1924 All-Ireland final reads, "Jackie Ryan showed the style of a master craftsman with superb fielding and passing as Kerry defeated Dublin by 1-5 to 1 3".

[citation needed] He collected his first County Championship medal in hurling that year with Tralee Parnells.

He won his first National League medal in 1928 when Kerry defeated Kildare, the reigning All Ireland Champions in the final.

Jackie Ryan was still a teenager in 1919 when the county board called a special meeting to discuss the state of Gaelic games in Kerry.

Din Joe Baily – a man under whose gentle and politically-neutral watch the games in the county prospered – was influential on the board at the time and after this meeting had concluded, Kerry saw a clear road ahead.

Importantly, the backbone of the team that would dominate the coming decade – with Jackie Ryan as a vital cog – was also forming.

'When Mikey Sheehy was growing up, people in Austin Stacks used to say he's going to be another Jackie Ryan', says Barrett.

And we're talking about a time when players wore cumbersome, orthopaedic boots with big steel toe caps.

For every hour Tadghie Lyne spent on the hardfloor, he'd spend countless others in his garage, kicking and catching a football suspended by its laces from the rafters, or in Fitzgerald Stadium, attempting points from the corner flag.

Jackie Ryan would hone on Rock Street the knack of chipping the rolling ball.