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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, [1] which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and GAA rounders.
1884: The Gaelic Athletic Association was founded on 1 November (Samhain: according to legend the day the Fianna fell from power) at Hayes' Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. 1886: Wexford County Board became the first GAA county organisation in the country. 1887: Tipperary and Limerick won the first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals ...
Michael Cusacks's Sydney GAA Club was founded in 1988 by a group of Clare men and was named in honour of the man from Carran. [19] Chicago Michael Cusack Hurling Club is a GAA club consisting entirely of American-born players founded in 2008. [20]
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.
The GAA was established in Hayes Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary on 1 November 1884 to foster and preserve Ireland's unique games and athletic pastimes. [1] In an address to the Association, Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald stated "During this hundred years, the association has made a profound contribution to Ireland.
The first game of hurling played under GAA rules outside Ireland was played on Boston Common in June 1886. In 1888, there was an American tour by fifty Gaelic athletes from Ireland, known as the 'American Invasion'. This created enough interest among Irish Americans to lay the groundwork for the North American GAA.
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This is a list of Gaelic games clubs across the world outside Ireland, organised by the club's associated county (the name for a unit in which a club is grouped).. Gaelic games clubs exist on every continent (except Antarctica).