Success at club level allowed Grace join the Dublin senior football team during the 1906 championship. In a brief career with the team he won back-to-back All-Ireland medals in 1906 and 1907. Grace later joined the Kilkenny senior hurling team, winning three successive All-Ireland medals between 1911 and 1913. He also won two Leinster medals as a footballer and four Leinster medals as a hurler.
Grace's brothers, - Jack and Dick - also had All-Ireland success in both codes with Kilkenny and Dublin. Between them, the three Grace brothers won a total of 15 All-Ireland medals.[2]
References
^Shanahan, Jim. "Grace, John ('Jack')". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 25 July 2017.