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It featured on one side a hurling player about to strike a sliotar surrounded by the text Cumann Lúthchleas Gael – GAA – Comórad Céad Bliain. On the obverse, it features a relief of Hayes Hotel, Thurles. [5] The medals were produced in limited quantities in 20 carat gold, Irish silver and bronze.
In endorsing the 1884 founding of the GAA, its patron Michael Davitt called for a modern revival of the ancient Tailteann Games. [1] In January 1888 the annual GAA Congress was held in an atmosphere of optimism after the successful organisation of the 1887 All-Ireland Hurling and All-Ireland Football Championships and a détente between factions for and against the Irish Republican Brotherhood ...
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.
Located in the village of Elphin, County Roscommon, Elphin GAA Club was founded in April 1888 and was originally named William O'Briens in honour of nationalist politician William O'Brien. [1] Success was immediate with the new club becoming the inaugural winners of the Roscommon SFC title in 1889. Elphin also become the first club to win five ...
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 ...
The championship began on 27 May 1888; however, no All-Ireland final took place and the championship remains unfinished due to the North American invasion tour of Irish athletes, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...
Edward Bennet (1845 – 24 November 1910), of Newmarket-on-Fergus, was the second president of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1887–1888). A participant in the 1867 Rising, Bennet was involved in athletics in Co. Clare, as well as the Land League and Home Rule movements. [1] Bennet became the first chairman of the Clare GAA county committee.