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Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), [1] commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, [2] or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football , it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch.
1967: The first international rules football game was played against a side of Australian origin. 1971: The first All-Ireland Club Championships were played. Roscrea won the senior hurling competition and East Kerry won the senior football competition. 1974: The Ladies' Gaelic Football Association was founded in Thurles.
While the GAA may have used Victorian rules to create Gaelic football, it is not known exactly how or when, Victorian rules were transferred to Ireland. One theory suggests that the origin was Archbishop Thomas Croke , one of the founders of the GAA, was the Bishop of Auckland and lived in New Zealand between 1870 and 1875.
Gaelic games (Irish: Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the most popular of the sports, are both organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
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.
The question of whether Australian rules football and Gaelic football have shared origins arises because it is clear even to casual observers that the two games are similar. The first record of an early version of Gaelic football is considered to be a game in 1670 in Meath (Irish county) where the match featured the catching and kicking of a ...
History of Gaelic football by county team (8 C) D. Defunct Gaelic football competitions (1 C, 8 P) M. Gaelic football matches (9 C, 1 P) R. Gaelic football rivalries ...
An article was written in 1884 by who many believe was Michael Cusack, talking about how English rule has disregarded traditional Irish sports. Cusack arranged a meeting in Hayes's hotel, Thurles, Co Tipperary on November 1st 1884, and the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) was founded.