User:Jnestorius/Books/The GAA : a people's history


 * p.40: 1887 parish dividing line between clubs, though not in Dublin and exceptions on request elsewhere.
 * p.43: from start (1887) county champion clubs chose other players in inter-county matches; later selection committee took over; for 25 years most counties played in club champions' colours (1909 Kilkenny late example)
 * p50 athletics increasingly peripheral in GAA
 * p53 camogie launched at start of 20c, "effectively relaunched" in 30s with all-Ireland inter-county championship
 * p54 in 40s full-time training camps became common before final and sometimes earlier rounds
 * p56 in 1954 full-time training camps banned as contrary to amateurism (had become comm
 * p64 hurling didn't spread much beyond old heartlands [reasons (1) competition from football (2) harder to master (3) more expense of hurleys and ash supply]
 * p65 GAA in 60s subsidised hurleys but in 70s scaled back to borders of heartland [Wexford 50s and Galway / Offaly 80s made breakthrough]
 * p68 compromise rules initiative started in 1984, centenary year. [60s links were private, 80s was at governing-body level]
 * p68 football problems: defining tackle; pulling and dragging
 * p75 clubs squeezed into winter by demands of inter-county matches in summer. this is a major challenge ahead.
 * p89 Kerry withdrew from 1910 SFC as it was in dispute with Great Southern Railway Co it normally travelled with
 * p91 1946 SFC final postponed to allow the harvest-saving campaign to mobilise
 * p99 growth in car ownership from 1960 to 1990 slwoed the transfer of players from rural to Dublin clubs as they could commute at weekends
 * p99-100 1888 Invasion tour left Queenstown on 16 Sep in SS Wisonsin; 50 hurlers and athletes plus Pres Maurice Davin [brother Pat as hurler and athlete] 17 stayed in USA and more returned after settling affairs in Ireland
 * p100 1968 Meath SFC champs toured Aus, played AFC team
 * p116 1893 all-Ireland finals at Ashtown Trotting Grounds; 1000 payed in, player refused owing to knee-high grass and no markings. Players moved goals to Phoenix Park where played.
 * p119 Thurles showgrounds bought for £900 from show committee. Three ("Fr M K", Denis O'Keeffe, Denis McCarthy) put up £300 each as loan, soon paid back "collected around town"
 * p119 Aldm Maurice Butterly owned "City and Suburban Sportsground" from 1870s, aka Jones' Road
 * p120 Butterly died 1907, GAA couldnt afford, Frank Dineen paid £3250 in 1908. Sold 4 acres (of 12) to Belveder College in 1910. Final of Croke Cup proceeeds paid £3500 December 1913
 * p123 renamed Croke Memorial Park; staged mass 1929 (Cath Emanc 100y) rally 1949 (Pioneers 50y) show 1966 (1916 50)
 * p128 1984 ambition every parish have GAA pitch "largely achieved" by early 2000s
 * p142 GAA founded as a reaction to pro-British sports governing bodies; by 1887 IRB had almost complete control in lacuna after Michael Cusack's summer 1886 sacking as secretary. Only Maurice Davin of central committee was not in IRB
 * pp143,144,145,188, 253 the 1887 convention was fiery with brawls between IRB and priests
 * p144 1888 IRB tcentral committee imposed top-down control at county and local level. RIC began infiltrating
 * p145 1889 Catholic Church condemns GAA -- clubs from over 1000 to 557. GAA takes Parnell side in 1891
 * p147-8: rugby soccer cricket hockey banned "early years of 20C" "not supported by large sections of the GAA". played, attended. Police, army, navy, prison service. Later attendee at dances run by the preceding.
 * p151 Clare 1917 SFC marched behind "Up de Valera" banner
 * p152 4 Aug 1918 15:00 GAA instructed all county boards to stage match without public-meeting permit
 * p153, 151 Frongach prison leaders only allowed Gaelic football, not soccer or rugby. (153) Wardens didnt allow hurleys. (151)
 * p154 GAA was "neutral space" after Civil War, helped reconciliation
 * p158 GAA excluded from 1920s sports tax
 * p162 "foreign dances" added to ban list [in 20s or 30s--vague on time] Vigilance Committees to find violators. 1922-26 motions to end bans given independence, defeated. O'Duffy favoured bans.
 * p163 periodic efforts to remove; by 1960s hard core supported, but widely ignored. Watch on TV unenforceable. Ended 1971 "after a decade of furious debate".
 * p175 "Game of Three Halves" summer scheme Presbyterian east Belfast soccer rugby Gaelic football
 * p192 Irish Press in 1930s first national to have much GAA coverage
 * p215 Dublin never applied "Parish Rule"; teams often founded by culchies, sometimes all from same area.
 * p215-6 open to all classes; amateur but not "gentleman amateur". A lot of fundraising from tickets, sponsorship, ads in programs. Travel expenses; early 20C broken time for training camps.
 * p216 IFA legalised professionalism in 1894 following FA.
 * p220 increased revenues from 1920s ploughed into growing the game, not salaries
 * p223 "ban" felt at local level. Galway CoCo in 1930 agreed to ap[ply GAA ban condition on second-level scholarships
 * p230 MacNamee Commission, 1971 report on overhaul of GAA admin
 * p231 from 1960s, GAA built community halls, more than jsut clubhouses for teams
 * p238 "illicit payment to managers at club and county level were an open secret, but they drew more condemnation than actual sanction". Gaelic Players Association 19999 founded -- fears of move to professionalism; threats of strike
 * p243 "Faith of our Fathers" sung at All Ireland final
 * p244 Bishop throwing in the ball at major matches was usual for decades, "dying tradition" by 1976
 * p246 - 1932 Euch Con -- no GAA matches during; provided Croke Park and 3000 stewards for masses. Parish rule was Catholic parish. Poaching not unknown
 * p248 priests often trained or admin teams, but not supposed to play; some did under aliases
 * p253 Croke patron of GAA but Coffey (Kerry) refused as anti-Fenian.
 * p253-6 Protestants "greatly underrepresented" -- partly education system, though elite Catholic schools played rugby.
 * p257 mass for Patrician year on 25 June 1961 attended by Pres, Taoi, hierarchy, Papal Legate
 * p259 National teachers often important in local GAA. Eroded recently as longer commutes and consolidated schools.
 * p269 Artane Boys Band founded 1872, first GAA gig 1886, integral part went to NYC in 1947 SFC final; lates 1960s outside industrial school; later allowed girls.
 * p272, 277 bonfires and lit sods of turf greet returning champion teams; originally spread news of victory.
 * p278 Official Guide says use Irish in correspondence -- common source of technical objections -- "Tá an-athas orm an corn sea a ghlacadh"
 * p281 Scór cultural competition started in 1969
 * p284 -- county songs, some of "questionable artistic merit"
 * p293 GAA replica jerseys as fashion from the early 1990s
 * p297 first SHC final both teams were barefoot
 * p300,302 supply of ash difficult; mass-produced lowers quality; GAA investigate synthetic material for hurleys
 * p301 Invasion tour ran out of hurley; had some made of hickory, which broke easily. Ash with wider flatter bas became standard
 * p305-7 Wavin plastic hurleys "did not succeed"
 * p307 Colillte has planted ash for 20%, other 80% imported
 * p309 Oliver Sheppard designed 1924 Tailteann Games medals
 * p310 1887 All-Ireland medals were actually awarded c.1913
 * p328 Cumann Camógaíochta nanGael refounded 1932; in 1939 [p.330] Dublin clubs' motion to end ban on hockey carried; Ulster counties withdrew to form National Camógaíochta Association
 * p329, 331 split ended early 1952
 * p332 2009 women's football final live TV "seismic consequences"; "late teens can quickly become adept"
 * p332-6 "tentative steps" to merge ladies orgs into GAA
 * p338 ladies success iin counties lacking mens success: Waterford, Laois, Monaghan
 * p346 1888 "Gaelic American Invasion" tour raise £5000 for Aonach Tailteann;well recevied by local ex-GAA and AOH. Crossfire of American athletics dispute, depriving them of local opposition in some cities. Large crowds only in Boston.
 * p348 Davin's £450 contingency loan needed to fund return
 * p349 "GAA of the U" founded NY 1914
 * p352 London County board c.1898; England a province 1900
 * p355 Brtiain province re-founded 1926
 * p356 1947 Polo Grounds was 34K crowd in 54K stadium but made profit; £2000 grant to "International fund" for USGAA. 1947 centenary of famine
 * p.360, 366 English tournament final at Wembley 1958 to mid-70s
 * p367 - weakness of US relied on first-generation immigrants declined after 1960s
 * p367-8 Irish players in summer in US getting paid, concern back home 1980s-90s
 * p368 all-stars tour US early 70s to early 90s; revfived late 90s toured more exotic locales
 * p381 marking system sets up contests between individuals, much of the attraction for spectators
 * p386 soccer in urban working-class, rugby in upper middle class
 * p388 "basic aim is to strengthen the national identity through the promotion of Gaelic games"
 * p389 no GAA spit in 1922 or in Troubles. Hyde ban served to "honour the letter of its rules but entirely subvert the aims"
 * p391-2 managers at club and county have revieved payments; less popular sports have paid players increased commercialisation; fear "undermin cohesiveness" or increase gulf county vs club (already clubs resent accommodating intercounty calendar)
 * p392 St Pat's Day clubs has replaced Railway Cup
 * p396 county boundary's importance is "largely because of the GAA"