The GAA quickly learned to keep sports and politics apart in order for the organization and Galiec games to survive although it still needed to keep rules in place to preserve its purpose, to promote native Irish pastimes. In Rule 21 was formed that prohibited members of the British forces from joining the GAA and many believe that because of this rule GAA remained a big part of politics, more so in Northern Ireland. Medieval Period. Hurling was fairly widely played around Cork city at the time, with teams such as St.
In subsequent issues the same month, Davin and Cusack openly supported the project, and finally Cusack sent out a circular for the Thurles meeting. This he had drafted in Dublin with the help of a number of hurling enthusiasts. So small was the attendance in Thurles that it may have been an exploratory or preliminary meeting.
Paul Madden. McCarthy, a Kerryman, was a police officer in Templemore. They agreed to form a Gaelic Association for the preservation and cultivation of our national pastimes. They decided to invite Archbishop Croke, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt to become patrons and adjourned the meeting to draft the regulations under which the pastimes were to be governed.
This meeting heard letters from Davitt, Parnell and Dr. Croke accepting the invitations to become Patrons. The Palace, Thurles, 18 December One of the most painful, let me assure you, and, at the same time, one of the most frequently recurring reflections that, as an Irishman, I am compelled to make in connection with the present aspect of things in this country, is derived from the ugly and irritating fact that we are daily importing from England not only her manufactured goods, which we cannot help doing, since she has practically strangled our own manufacturing appliances, but, together with her fashions, her accent, her vicious literature, her music, her dances, and her manifold mannerisms, her games also and her pastimes, to the utter discredit of our own grand national sports, and to the sore humiliation, as I believe, of every genuine son and daughter of the old land.
And what have we got in their stead? We have got such foreign and fantastic field sports as lawn-tennis, polo, croquet, cricket, and the like—very excellent, I believe, and health-giving exercises in their way, still not racy of the soil, but rather alien, on the contrary, to it, as are, indeed, for the most part the men and women who first imported and still continue to patronise them.
And, unfortunately, it is not our national sports alone that are held in dishonour, and dying out, but even our most suggestive national celebrations are being gradually effaced and extinguished, one after another, as well. Who hears now of snap-apple night, or bonfire night?
They are all things of the past, too vulgar to be spoken of, except in ridicule, by the degenerate dandies of the day. Deprecating, as I do, any such dire and disgraceful consummation, and seeing in your society of athletes something altogether opposed to it, I shall be happy to do all that I can, and authorise you now formally to place my name on the roll of your patrons.
In conclusion, I earnestly hope that our national journals will not disdain, in future, to give suitable notices of those Irish sports and pastimes which your society means to patronise and promote, and that the masters and pupils of our Irish colleges will not henceforth exclude from their athletic programmes such manly exercises as I have just referred to and commemorated.
Croke, Archbishop of Cashel. A third meeting of the Association was held in Thurles on January 17th, , where the draft rules for hurling, football, weight throwing, running, jumping and cycling were adopted.
At the behest of Michael Cusack seven men met in Hayes Hotel, Thurles on November 1, and founded the Gaelic Athletic Association for the preservation and cultivation of our national pastimes. Scanlon, who favoured the Home Rule faction, left the Annual Congress and announced his intention to form a rival athletic association - one that would pledge allegiance to the National League. To raise the capital a group of 50 Irish athletes embarked on a fundraising tour of Irish centres in America staging displays of hurling and athletics and international contests between Ireland and America.
However, terrible weather and infighting between the two athletic organisations in America resulted in low attendances and gate receipts.
While the tour was a financial failure it did arouse interest in Gaelic Games amongst the Irish and Irish-Americans. Give us feedback. Read Next View. Hampton by Hilton London Park Royal. Eccleston Square Hotel.
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