These matches drew large crowds and many colourful accounts of these games survive. Similarly in , a game at Callan, Co. The sticks were being brandished like swords. Hurling is a war-like game. The west side won the first match and the east the second. Photo from www. A growing sense of nationalism among the Irish people and the formation of the United Irishmen led to an increase in political tension.
The landowners, generally English and Protestant began to fear large gatherings and withdrew support from the game. The Rising of deepened divisions and the Act of Union, which made Ireland part of the United Kingdom, also changed the way of life. Barony hurling, which was organised by landlords and comprised teams made up of their tenants, came to an end in the early part of the nineteenth century. By the time of the Great Famine of — 49, Hurling had declined dramatically and was in danger of dying out completely but for a number of strongholds.
However, Dublin Castle itself admitted that by the late s, Hurling was being played all over Munster and records of the game survive in Donegal and Down and Kilkenny and Longford. There was much variation in the forms of the stick and ball games played in Ireland. There was the cross country scuaib in Clare and South Galway. In the s Hurling would see a new revival in the name of Michael Cusack. Michael Cusack was born in in Carron, County Clare.
Michael would have grown up playing hurling, but he also played other sports through his teaching career including, handball, shot putt, rugby and cricket. When Michael Cusack moved to Dublin, in , to open his academy preparing Irish students for the Civil Service examinations, sport throughout Ireland was the preserve of the middle and ascended classes.
The game had to be stopped on numerous occasions as the two teams were playing to different rules. It was this clash of styles that convinced Cusack that not only did the rules of the games need to be standardised but that a body must be established to govern Irish sports. Cusack was also a journalist and he used the nationalist press of the day to further his cause for the creation of a body to organise and govern athletics in Ireland.
Michael Cusack had realised the need for common regulations and this inspired much of his thinking with regard to the formation of the GAA. It combining skills from lacrosse, field hockey, and baseball in a hard-hitting, highly paced game. The sliotar can travel up to kilometres per hour over the course of a game! The female version of the game is known as Camogie and is very similar to hurling, with just a few minor rule changes.
The games are truly magnificent spectacles, with speed, accuracy, intensity and passion to the fore. Come join us and we will introduce you to the skills of the game along with the passion and culture behind it. Are you excited yet? Why not book in with Experience Gaelic Games and try your hand at the greatest game on earth. Hurling is one of the oldest field games in the world and is popular for at least years in Ireland with the first literary reference dating back to BC.
Such stories often portray Hurling as a form of martial training and proficiency on the Hurling field was equated with skill in battle.
Throughout the countryside, Hurling thrived as a wild and often violent practice with few set rules. One 17th century account describes the game as being played on a plain about yards long, with victory going to the first team to drive the ball through the goal of the opponent. The Celtic legal system, the Brehon Laws, provided for compensation for hurling accidents and provisions were also made for cases of deliberate injury, or even death, as a result of Hurling.
The game was outlawed in the 12th century after the occupation by the Normans, but it survived and even flourished up to the early 19th century mainly due to patronization by the landlords. By the time of the Great Famine of — 49, Hurling had declined dramatically and was in danger of dying out completely but for a number of strongholds.
However, Dublin Castle itself admitted that by the late s, Hurling was being played all over Munster and records of the game survive in Donegal and Down and Kilkenny and Longford.
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