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The National Collegiate Gaelic Athletic Association is a non-profit organization that oversees Hurling and Gaelic Football sports for universities in North America. Since beginning in 2011, the NCGAA has grown to over 27 active clubs across the United States and Canada. The first ever U.S. NCGAA hurling championship took place in 2011.
This section represents in colour-coded tabular format the results of GAA county teams in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship since 1997. Prior to 1997, counties played in separate provincial championships , with only four provincial champions coming together in the All-Ireland semi-finals, and it is difficult to directly compare ...
Hurling and Gaelic football have been played in North America ever since Irish immigrants began landing on North American shores. The earliest games of hurling in North America were played in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1788, [2] and there are records of football being played in Hyde Park (now the site of the Civic Center) in San Francisco as early as the 1850s.
International Rules Series – Annual two-game series played between Ireland and Australia using a combination of rules from Gaelic football and Australian rules football. Hurling/Shinty International Series – Annual competition played between Ireland and Scotland using a combination of rules from Hurling and Shinty.
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition established by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The All-Ireland Championship is open to the top hurling teams in Ireland, with 14 teams currently participating. Originally, only the county club champions of their respective county championships were allowed to ...
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.
1974: The Ladies' Gaelic Football Association was founded in Thurles. 1976: Páirc Uí Chaoimh was opened in Cork City. It was the first purpose-built GAA stadium. 1984: The Gaelic Athletic Association's centenary year. The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Cork and Offaly was played in Semple Stadium, Thurles.
This is a list of all the past winners of the official GAA GPA All Stars Awards in hurling since the first awards in 1971. As an insight to the prominent players of the 1960s, it also includes the unofficial "Cuchulainn" awards presented from 1963 to 1967 under the auspices of Gaelic Weekly magazine.