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The Seán Treacy GAA Club takes his name in honour and represents the parishes of Hollyford, Kilcommon and Rearcross in the Slieve Felim Hills, which straddle the borderland between the historical North and South Ridings of Tipperary. The song Seán Treacy, also called Tipperary so Far Away, is about Treacy's death and is sung in west Tipperary ...
Seán Daniel Treacy (22 September 1923 – 23 March 2018) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1973 to 1977 and 1987 to 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary South constituency from 1961 to 1997.
The club was founded in 1973 and was named for IRA combatant Seán Treacy (1895–1920). [2] They won a minor title in 1975 and reached the final of the Armagh Senior Hurling Championship in 1977 and 1978. They have won seven junior titles as well. It is the only hurling club in Lurgan. [3]
At inter-county level, Treacy was an All-Ireland runner-up with the Dublin minor team in 2012, before winning a Leinster Under-21 Championship medal with the Dublin under-21 team in 2016. [3] [4] Treacy was drafted onto the Dublin senior hurling team in 2016 and lined out at several times until 2019. His brother, David Treacy, aloso played with ...
Seán Treacy (born 1965) is an Irish hurling coach and former player. At club level he played with Portumna , while he also lined out at inter-county level with various Galway teams. Treacy is the current coach of the Clare senior hurling team .
Sean P. Keating (1903–1976) Irish Republican Army member who fought for Anti-Treaty forces during Irish Civil War, later became Deputy Mayor of New York City. Paddy Killoran (1903-1965) Famed fiddle player, band leader and recording artist. Volunteer in the 3rd Sligo Battalion during the war of independence.
Sean Treacy's GAA is a Tipperary GAA club which is located in County Tipperary, Ireland. Both hurling and Gaelic football are played in the "West-Tipperary" divisional competitions. The club is centred on the parish of Hollyford, Kilcommon and Rearcross in the Slieve Felim Hills, west of Thurles. [1] and close to the county boundary with Limerick.
"Tipperary So Far Away" (Ballad of Sean Treacy). This song recounts the death of Sean Treacy. A line from the song was quoted by Ronald Reagan when he visited Ballyporeen in 1984: "And I'll never more roam, from my own native home, in Tipperary so far away.". [24] Ballad of Dan Breen [25] Station of Knocklong, about Sean Hogan's rescue. [26]