When was gaa established

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Hampton by Hilton London Park Royal. Eccleston Square Hotel. Georgian Guest House. 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. These rules were first enforced at a meeting in Ballineen on St. The rules for hurling and football, given below, were published in United Ireland on 7 February , those for weight-throwing on 14 February, and those for athletics also given below and for GAA sports in general, were published on 21 February.

The ground shall, when convenient, be at least yards long by yards broad, or as near to that size as can be got. There shall be boundary lines all around the ground, at a distance of at least five yards from the fence. The goal shall be two upright posts, twenty feet apart, with a cross-bar ten feet from the ground.

A goal is won when the ball is driven between the posts and under the cross-bar. The ball is not to be lifted off the ground with the hand, when in play. There shall not be less than fourteen or more than twenty-one players at the side in regular matches. There shall be an umpire for each side and a referee who will decide in cases where the umpires disagree.

The referee keeps the time and throws up the ball at the commencement of each goal. The time of play shall be one hour and twenty minutes. Sides to be changed at half—time.

Before commencing play hurlers shall draw up in two lines in the centre of the field opposite to each other and catch hands or hurleys across, then separate.

The referee then throws the ball along the ground between the players or up high over their heads. No player to catch, trip or push from behind. Penalty, disqualification to the offender and free puck to the opposite side. 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. Home History 19th Century.