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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
In 1888, W. B. Yeats noted that the gancanagh was not found in dictionaries and the fairy was not well-known in Connacht. [1]In a story collected in The Dublin and London Magazine in 1825, ganconer is defined as "a name given to the fairies, alias the 'good people,' in the North of Ireland."
The female version of the game is known as ladies' Gaelic football and is similar to the men's game with a few minor rule changes. [10] Other formats with teams of 7 to 11 players are played in Europe, [ 11 ] Middle East, Asia, Argentina and South Africa utilising smaller soccer or rugby pitches.
Children participating in a game of Gaelic football. Gaelic sports at all levels are amateur, in the sense that the athletes, even those playing at an elite level, do not receive payment for their performance. The main competitions at all levels of Gaelic football are the League and the Championship. Of these, it is the Championship (a knock ...
Glossary of Gaelic games terms From other capitalisation : This is a redirect from a title with another method of capitalisation. It leads to the title in accordance with the Wikipedia naming conventions for capitalisation , or it leads to a title that is associated in some way with the conventional capitalisation of this redirect title.
Baby Names for Boys That Mean Love 35. Amias. Pronounced ah-MY-us, this badass name has Latin roots and a meaning of “beloved.” 36. Oscar. Among the many names that mean love, this one has ...
Gaelic (pronounced / ˈ ɡ eɪ l ɪ k / for Irish Gaelic and / ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ k / for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: It may refer to: Languages
The same game played by women is called camogie (camógaíocht), which shares a common Gaelic root. The objective of the game is for players to use an ash wood stick called a hurl or hurley (in Irish a camán, pronounced / ˈ k æ m ən / or / k ə ˈ m ɔː n /) to hit a small ball called a sliotar / ˈ ʃ l ɪ t ər / between the opponent's ...