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Gaelic games (Irish: Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football , hurling , Gaelic handball and rounders .
Panel: The Gaelic games equivalent of a squad. Páirc: Irish for "park", this Irish word appears in the names of some sports grounds, e.g. Páirc Esler and Páirc Tailteann; Páirc an Chrócaigh: Irish for Croke Park. Park: (see also) Páirc, a common element in the names of GAA grounds. Peil: Irish word for football, i.e
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael [ˈkʊmˠən̪ˠ ˈl̪ˠuːˌçlʲasˠ ˈɡeːlˠ]; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, [2] which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and GAA rounders.
Hurling (Irish: iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much terminology.
Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), [1] commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, [2] or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football , it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch.
Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and among Highland migrants to the major cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, [2] [3] [4] and was even played in Northern England into the second half of the 20th century [5] [4] and other areas in the world where ...
An archaic Irish name for a hurling-ball, used on the Aran Islands as well as elsewhere, was cnag; the term also means "knob, peg, skein of thread," indicating the ball's shape and nature. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The term sliotar is not recorded until Dinneen 's 1927 dictionary, where it is said to mean "a good quantity, as of food at a meal, a hurley-ball ...
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