International audienceIn Ireland, Gaelic football and hurling are the two most popular team sports, well ahead of soccer and rugby. Both are placed under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), which was created in 1884 as a means of countering British cultural imperialism. As the sport’s expression of imagined Irishness, Gaelic games are played almost exclusively in Ireland as well as in a few countries with a strong Irish diaspora, especially in the United States, Great Britain and continental Europe. For those Irish men and women who were driven out of the country by the famine across the Atlantic, playing Gaelic games still is, to some extent, a means of settling in as well as of making an identity and political statement...
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sports are under the threat of global and more commercially viable...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is undoubtedly the most impor-tant sporting body in Ireland. B...
Nations and communities are created and represented through a myriad of different processes. Signifi...
This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a plac...
This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a plac...
There has always been a huge number of Irish emigrating and recently there has been a number of Gael...
In the second half of the twentieth century, a new significant grouping emerged in the pattern of mi...
In the second half of the twentieth century, a new significant grouping emerged in the pattern of mi...
In the second half of the twentieth century, a new significant grouping emerged in the pattern of mi...
There has always been a huge number of Irish emigrating and recently there has been a number of Gael...
The revival of Gaelic games should be situated in the larger context of the codification of team spo...
From the earliest days of the cinema, sport was one of the most popular subjects of representation. ...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) as an organisation grew from an idealised political ideology ...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has been synonymous with the sporting tradition of Ireland sin...
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sports are under the threat of global and more commercially viable...
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sports are under the threat of global and more commercially viable...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is undoubtedly the most impor-tant sporting body in Ireland. B...
Nations and communities are created and represented through a myriad of different processes. Signifi...
This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a plac...
This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a plac...
There has always been a huge number of Irish emigrating and recently there has been a number of Gael...
In the second half of the twentieth century, a new significant grouping emerged in the pattern of mi...
In the second half of the twentieth century, a new significant grouping emerged in the pattern of mi...
In the second half of the twentieth century, a new significant grouping emerged in the pattern of mi...
There has always been a huge number of Irish emigrating and recently there has been a number of Gael...
The revival of Gaelic games should be situated in the larger context of the codification of team spo...
From the earliest days of the cinema, sport was one of the most popular subjects of representation. ...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) as an organisation grew from an idealised political ideology ...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has been synonymous with the sporting tradition of Ireland sin...
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sports are under the threat of global and more commercially viable...
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sports are under the threat of global and more commercially viable...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is undoubtedly the most impor-tant sporting body in Ireland. B...
Nations and communities are created and represented through a myriad of different processes. Signifi...