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The GAA was established in Hayes Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary on 1 November 1884 to foster and preserve Ireland's unique games and athletic pastimes. [1] In an address to the Association, Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald stated " During this hundred years, the association has made a profound contribution to Ireland.
1935: The GAA entered its second half-century. A crowd of 50,000 attended the All-Ireland Finals. 1938: Micheál Ó Hehir commentated on his first GAA match. 1939: The Cork versus Kilkenny hurling match was remembered as the "thunder & lightning final" as the climax was played in a storm. On the same day the Second World War began.
Pages in category "Gaelic Athletic Association clubs established in 1888" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games. [ 1 ] The 1888 provincial championships had been completed ( Tipperary , Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour ...
It was an emotional day for 62-year-old Candy Wagner, who after decades of searching, found the daughter she had given up for adoption. Wagner gave birth when she was just 14-years-old, staying at ...
The Arva Davitt's club was founded in 1888. The club's first championship success came in 1933, winning the Cavan Junior Football Championship. The Davitt's club and the neighbouring Cormore club joined in 1964 to form the Arva St Patrick's club, and went on to win the Cavan Intermediate Football Championship in 1972. The club added a further ...
The Limerick Commercials team that beat Dundalk Young Irelands in the 1887 All-Ireland football final (played on a field known as the "Big Bank" in Clonskeagh C. Dublin on 29 April 1888) was: Denis Corbett (goalkeeper and captain), Timothy Fitzgibbon, William Gunning, Richard Breen, John Hyland, Thomas McNamara, William J Spain (winner of an ...
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