Former camogie (female version of hurling) player here. There’s no dip on the hurl (for info, the hurl is traditionally made of ash wood). If anything, it’s slightly convex. 05:00 It looks like a penalty was being taken, so there are more players guarding the goal. There’s only one goalie per team. The ball (sliothar) has a solid cork interior and is wrapped with two pieces of leather stitched together with a raised outward facing seam (it hurts a lot if you’re hit with one). The old IRA and IRB aren’t connected to the more recent organization of the same name. The mispronunciation of practically every hurling or Irish-specific word on the video clip is jarring to the ears of any Irish person watching this… It’s a shame that they didn’t have this checked by the GAA or basically any actual Irish person, as it spoils an otherwise interesting video and misinforms the viewers).
The rules have been changed regarding penalties only the goalkeeper is alowed to defend a penalty ,that was probably a free from just outside the parallelogram
@@gallowglass2630 I apologize that’s what I was saying. There was a potato blight throughout Europe in the US. But specifically laissez-faire policies from London is to blame for a majority of the death that happened in Ireland.
@@jgg59 While people were dieing in Ireland because of a potato blight, Ireland was exporting huge amounts of foodstuffs to England, who were our colonial masters. The records kept by the English confirm the amounts of food they took out of Ireland. They owned most of the land because they stole it humdreds of years before. Like all colonials do. England wanted to suppress the Irish who were constantly revolting against English rule. Killing them by famine was one way of suppressing the people. Israel stealing Palestinian land is very similar, which is why the Irish sympathise with the Palestinians. America stealing the land from the indigenous population. Oppression never ends.
@@kaboomblueskies i’m a little confused why you’re responding to me since this is exactly what I was saying I think maybe you were responding to the wrong person. I know my history.
Hurling has been played for about 3,000 years. None of the players get paid. They play to represent their County & for the love of the game. Each County has its own colours. The players have jobs so after playing in even very important matches they are back at work after. The Counties play off each other until it finally ends up with the final 2 teams and they play "the All Ireland Hurling Final" - with over 82,000 spectators in Dublin. It's a huge event in Ireland, as is the All Ireland Gaelic Football Final. Try & watch highlights from finals. It's a magnificent game. Such skill and courage needed from the players. The girls play the same but theirs is called Camogie. 👍
“Why would they outlaw it?” Cultural suppression. Language, arts, religion, sports, education. All things that define a culture and all things you ban when you’re intent on destroying that culture.
The UK already banned it and every other part of Irish culture including our native language till the Easter rising in 1916 left us to be able to become a Republic in 1947. Which is when we fully got rid of our colonial invaders of 800 years
people just romanticise it now , like the brits just slaughtered us, literally murdered us for speaking our own words! you are putting it lightly ! lol we are so sound about it really ...
Best game in The World🙌🇮🇪 There is no dip in the hurl, it’s flat. Very hard to balance the Slitoir (which is very hard and heavy) on it for most people. There aren’t multiple players in the goal either - really only for Free’s etc. That was a free you were looking at. The skill level, the sheer quickness of the game and the physicality makes it the best game in the world imo. And then take into account it’s an amateur sport - players are not paid.
Hi Steve, hurling and Gaelic football are contested in Ireland on a county basis, culminating in the All Ireland finals at Croke Park in Dublin. You'll find plenty of past finals on TH-cam. The history of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) shows that politics and sport overlapping is nothing new.
Irish cameramen were on strike years ago so some English camera guys were sent over to film the finals. They couldn't follow the ball, the whole game was way too fast for them 😀 The hurl is flat. The sliotar (ball) is fecking rock hard. To play for one of the 35 county teams you have to be actually from the county.
@@irene3196 There is a net in front of the crowd. but none the less. the ball does go into the crowd now and again. people just catch it. it is very similar in size and feel to a cricket ball or baseball.
Its a dangerous game. My father got his leg broken playing it in his youth and was 6 weeks at home with his leg up on a stool without painkillers! My father's family were too poor to pay a doctor. Big sport in Kilkenny. X
The term soccer is used quite frequently in Ireland for the same reason as in the United States; we have our own type of football. Two other Irish sports worth checking out are road bowling and Irish handball. There's also pitch and putt, which is a more modern creation. It's basically a simplified version of golf, played on a smaller course with only two clubs.
Was about to ask, who the hell the guy was giving his take on Hurling. His pronunciation is appalling. Somebody did give you a proper idea of it. Camogie is not camogee it’s Camogie. He’s insulation our Irish language.
I really wish people would stop referring to the famine as such.we where still growing wheat, barley and every food available but we had to give it to our English landlord.we where starved to death by the british.please stop calling it a famine.
I am so surprised that The Marvel film never used Cú Chulainn as a hero as he had some Crazy skills he would kick Thor arse.Cuchulainn’s reputation as a warrior grew in Irish folk tales until he came to be regarded as a demigod. In some ways, the Irish hero resembled the Greek hero Achilles. But unlike Achilles and other Greek heroes, Cuchulainn had many supernatural powers. For example, he could spit fire in battle. He was also a magician and poet. Cuchulainn became a favorite character among writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance of the late 1800's up Tipperary,Tiobraid Árann Abú!
The Marvel comics have had the Celtic Gods appear (including CuChulainn, even though he's a human with a dash of Sidhe blood), once visiting Asgard; one of the Thor films had a council of godheads appear, where, bizarrely, Zeus was the leader. Perhaps the Tuatha de are visible in those scenes. Marvel also has the 'otherworld,' a fantastic realm that maps a bit onto the British Isles and Ireland, where fey, heroes, kings, etc, sometimes with an Alice in Wonderland slant exist in the Marvel Universe. The Black Knight character (seen in 'The Eternals') is connected to that realm, as is Captain Britain and Elizabeth Braddock, and others, such as the New Mutants teams have visited.
My Gr Grandad Murt Cashin was heavily involved in Hurling all of his life, both as a player and latter into coaching and management. He was founding chairman of St Canices (Rosbercon) and then following its merger with Tullogher chairman of the combined Tullogher-Rosbercon.
It is said that Hurling was a sport that Chieftains or Kings made their warriors play to keep them fit and strong during times of peace, this could also explain why the Normans banned it. It does take incredible stamina, hand and eye coordination to play.
Thanks for this post, Steve. In the Outlander series, after a boar hunt, the hunters return to find a vicious game of Shinty (Scottish version of Hurling) going on. Jamie and his uncle joined in and ended up trying to kill each other in the game.
There is also a Manx version of yhe game called Cammag. Very very amateur and a bit like royal rumble with unofficial sticks (made from absolutely anything). Also a video on TH-cam about Cammag 👍🏼
I am from the UK and this is the first time I have learned anything about this sport. It looks like it would be a lot more fun than football while being a lot less violent than rugby. I had always thought hurling was another name for what the Scottish did with hammers or logs.
If you check out a video featuring a game being played you will see that hurling is in fact a highly physical sport, almost on a par with Australian Rules Football. Serious injuries are not unheard of, but the rules laid down by the GAA keep players relatively safe. Having said that, hurling is not a game for cissies. It can be violent, rough and utterly exciting all at the same time.
@@WookieWarriorz I would say most hurlers in Antrim and in Down don't consider themselves Northern Irish, except in a geographical sense. In the GAA world there is only Ireland, and certainly no Northern Ireland.
Hurling is indeed the oldest stick-and-ball game in the world. It was outlawed not only by the 12th Century Anglo-Normans, to suppress Irish or Celtic identity in line with British colonialism, but by the British government in 1918 (as were all Gaelic games) as they saw the GAA as a "dangerous organisation", believing it fostered Irish republicanism. On that note, you must dive deeper into the event of Bloody Sunday (1920) - I'd recommend watching the scene from the movie 'Michael Collins'. Some pronunciation corrections (there were quite a few!): 'Shlitter' (the ball) 'Coo-KULLan' (the hero) 'Gay-lick' ('Gallick' refers to the Scottish language only) 'Cam-OGUE-ee' (female offshoot of hurling)
John Gregson’s 1958 film Rooney was a comedy about an. Irish dustman who played Hurling in his spare time and I remember the Hurling being very exciting. I watched it as a child on English tv.
Having received many skelps of a hurl, plenty of bruises, plenty of blood (the time before helmets were introduced) I always have a giggle when professional footballers (soccer) writhe on the ground after a slight push.
My nephew plays in the Washington DC area. His team goes to the Gaelic games in the US. I saw him play a couple of years ago when the games were held in Canton, Massachusetts. Spectating really needs grandstands to get a bit higher to see the action on field. Hard game, you have to be in shape. Funny thing. The guys directing traffic to the parking areas were Irish-Irish, not Irish-Americans. Took me aback for a couple of seconds. Looks to be a better game than "Soccer".
The guy who’s name I use for my TH-cam account, along with the profile picture is that of Christy Ring, arguably the greatest hurler of all time. Played for Cork between roughly 1940 and 1960. A hurling icon
Ice hockey is a north American sport that was from hurling. The GAA players are part time employment wild playing Hurling and Gealic football matches with men and women
That's why a lot of Irish Hurlers are pretty good golfers. It's exciting to watch! it's a rough sport, I remember my Dad telling me he had stitches over one eye one weekend and the other the next.
Before the hemets it used to be like a cross between Hockey & Murder....Some of the worst head injuries youre ever going to see,like imagine when its a cold winters day & someone gets smashed with the Hurling stick & it opens them up from top of their ear to the top of their nose & shatters their eye socket..Well that was a Tuesday in Hurling
I am happy that you enjoyed the hurling video. I noticed that you compared Hurling to a number of sports like hockey etc, but you need to know as was pointed out in the video that the sport of Hurling is thousands of years old, so it does not take any influence from any of these sports.
The top game of the year is called the All Ireland Final, which is played in August. This is played in the largest stadium in Ireland called Croke Park. Over 80000 people attend the final every year. The other thing to remember is that all players both in Hurling and Gaelic Football are amateur. All have regular day jobs, including teachers, gardai (police) and previously , priests.
did the fella in the hurling video pronounce any of the names right lol 😂😂😂 it's flat no dip, it's a tough game. my county won the All Ireland this year, Co Clare 💛💙
'Running field stick and ball' games are known the world over, many variations. Shinty in Britain is sometimes considered a subset of Hockey, but the Scots correctly maintain it's native to Scotland, while hockey variations seem to have derived from Hurley, Shinty and others arriving at Hockey, then played on ice. The big variation is if the game is played around the edge of a space, with corners or bases, or across the space, such as baseball, cricket etc, v lacrosse, etc. If we drop the sticks we arrive at netball, basketball, korfball, and many others. Hurley is specific, but it's on the spectrum. The many variations of 'running field ball' (no stick) games is also enormous, usually with a split about how or if the ball is handled or carried.
I'm English and I found this most interesting. My parents had a long retirement on a Scottish island, and there I came across Shinty. Now Highlanders and Islanders are warriors, and Shinty looks terrifying to me. It's played with a crooked stick called a 'caman', and shinty is called 'camanachd' in Scottish Gaelic. 'A possible equivalent further south is Bandy, which I believe is still played in South Wales. There is a stained-glass panel in Gloucester Cathedaral ( from the 14th century). A player has a curved stick and a ball. Anybody got information about these?
I played shinty at primary school in a part of Scotland called...... Ipswich! I have no idea why we played it or how authentic our version was but it was great fun.
Take a look at Shinty, it's a Scottish stick and ball game. There's usually a game played each year between the Scottish and Irish champions. Pretty brutal. Aussie rules football appears to owe part of it's origin to Gaelic football despite desperate attempts to say it was an Aboriginal game. I will say as an ex British soldier with Irish and Scottish roots who served in Northern Ireland for a while leave "The Troubles" alone, it's way too divisive a topic.
@@gallowglass2630 There's divisive and then there's topics which can start fights leading to deaths. 12 years as a soldier and 20 in the police proved that to me far too often.
Interesting video I have not played hurling but will have to try the sport if I get the chance. A sport played in England is called Crown Green Bowling. You might have heard of Bowling or Flat Green Bowling (2003 film Blackball) but the rules for Crown Green Bowling is slightly different.
Cu Chullann was a pre-Christian, Iron Age Warrior/Hero. If you want to get an idea of what 'knockdown' or 'hurling' was like in ancient, pre-Christian times, just have a look at 'The Last of the Mohicans' movie where Daniel Day Lewis ('Hawkeye') and the Mohicans would prefer to play a wild version of 'Lacrosse' than volunteer to fight for the English in their war with the French in Canada. Exciting & exhilarating! Ice Hockey is said to be based on Hurling. BTW, the Normans & English would have banned the game in Ireland as it was a good way to practice Martial Arts Skills without traditional weapons.
This is not a professional sport. There are only 32 counties in Ireland. You have to be born in the county to be able to play for it. When a free hit is given, other players can help defend the goal. If a penalty is given the goalkeeper is the only one allowed to defend the goal. The penalty is taken from 21 yards. Besides the counties there are local clubs that play the game in organised competitions. There are 2,200 local community clubs in the 32 counties. The bedrock of hurling is in three provinces, Munster, Leinster and Connaught. In Munster 21 teams compete for the Harty cup. These teams would normally supply the players for their respective counties. The latest All Ireland final took place on Sunday 21 July 2024 between Cork and Clare, both teams from Munster. It was a classic game and will give you a real feeling for the game and how ferocious it is. Absolutely incredible game. Enjoy. It is probably on youtube by now, If not look at last years final between Limerick and Kilkenny.
If you record on film and it’s well preserved the detail is incredible, usually when you’re watching old film it’s damage to the film that makes it look bad primarily. I’ve seen film from around the same time look even better than that
I still use 35mm black and white for my photography for that reason. Film selection and storage are key. Mould is a big enemy. I pulled a couple of lenses out of storage, but only found the spores after I developed the film. A tiny patch of tendrils on the lens was super imposed on every print.. Barely visible to a casual inspection.. Not happy.
Stick is a Hurl. (though many say hurley or hurling stick) The hurl is basically flat but actually more likely to be rounded the wrong way to what you are thinking. The ball is a sliotar and is said fast so the o basically disappears ( slit-ar) Coo-Cull-ann (and not an american long "a" sound ann) and the legend is that the ball flew stright into the dogs throat.. (Making me think he was probably playing with the dog and the dog choked on his ball..) Why outlaw the local game.. Same reason that later the English tthen after the act of union, British outlawed the religion, the language and so on. They were trying to replace our culture with their own. IRB is before the IRA and even the IRA was a fractured coalition of groups rather than 1 single organisation. IRA were freedom fighters.. untill enough bad stuff happened on both sides and they started targeting civilian targets. Cam-oh-gie. Of all the video's, why do reacters not pick someone who is from the area being talked about that know how to pronounce the different terms. There is a big GAA presence in the US and Austrailia FYI. Any athlete competing in the GAA must be Amature.. as in un-paid other than expenses covered. The skill is V high and Ireland has lost many great football (Gaelic) players to Aussie rules because of it. The GAA is a V corrupt organisation(IMO). You find the top of it is VERY not connected to the bottom. It reminds me of the church in many ways. There is MASSIVE wealth in the organisation but it's not distributed equally. It lives and breathes on the backs of many thousands of voulenteers in running the local clubs and such and the players that don't get paid for their efforts. Not to mention government money to build their stadium. This video was a good(ish) intro to hurling, covering the history and some of the mythology associated. This was a terrible video for showing how fast paced the game is or comparing various skills to other sports for context. E.G. The ball is kinda like a baseball though a bit smaller. They catch it in their bare hands when it's travelling at speeds of around 100Mph. Helmets are not mandatory and you have people jumping to catch the ball in their hand or knock it down with their hurl, in the same place at the same time and there could be a group of 4 - 6 competing for the ball. UNESCO has it listed as not only the fastest field game in the world but also the oldest.
Yes, the hurley stick's face is flat and it takes a lot of practice to become adept at moving the ball around at speed. I have never been more bruised than my days playing hurling.
The hurl has a flat top with no divot but the slither has groves on it which makes it easier to balance, it still requires a lot of skill tho to balance the ball
Shinty is the Scottish version of hurling and they do play between themselves. Hurling is a skilled sport - not too bad nowadays with mouth guards, helmets and gloves but back in the day you could easily get a black eye or more serious injuries from the swinging of the hurleys.
There's no dip in a Hurly but it's easy to balance the ball on it. I had a hurly as a kid with the nose broken off, basically it was a big stick!!, and i could still run at full(ish) speed with the ball balanced on it. 7:16 It's pronounced koo kullin 14:30 Camogie is pronounced with a hard G, he almost had it
In the early 20th century in Ireland... It was a revival of all things Irish culture.. the languge, sport, music etc alongside the big push for Irish freedom from Britain.. Many Americans will have seen the film Michael Collins which portrayed the political and military events of that time..
1:00 Hurling is not only played in Ireland, it's starting to grow across the world. There is actually a GAA world games tournament l for the world to play in except ireland. 3:47 the hurley is flat, and at incurl part axe shape, its sharps in. 5:07 centuries 😂 its over 3000 years old, the ancient warriors use to play it, the train for battle. The samein the 1900's when the freedom fighters practiced for guns, they put the axe head in the armpit for the stock of the gun, and the tail of the hurl at the scope of the gun. 7:17 i dunno how he got that name either because that not his name, its not how its said whatsoever.
Hurling played on ice in Canada was called ice hurley the ball in hockey is called the puc ,when you strike the sliothar in hurling you say puc the Sliothar ,look at hurley sticks from 150 years ago ,exactly the same as ice hockey sticks
yes in the legend it is an Irish wolfhound if you think they are big now they were much bigger in the past. The modern wolfhound is nothing to its ancestor. They almost went extinct in Ireland due to the fact that they were exported so much from the country.
Scotland has a similar game Called Shinty, Each year there’s an exhibition game where Scotland play Shinty rules against Irish national Hurling team, for the Camanachd GAA cup, I don’t know much of the rules of either game, But it good viewing,
@@ThomasKelly669 They do quite considerably,but its more towards shinty and they are allowed to use their own sticks .The pitch is a hurling pitch and the scoring is mostly hurling except for one score thats created specifically for the game.The key difference for hurlers is that they are not allowed to handle the ball
@@gallowglass2630 I need to start getting in to Hurling Watch some videos on it, I had one at it Shannon those around where surprised, I could hurl the ball about, must be in the genes 😂 thanks for the information 🫶🏴
Multiple people can guard the net. They can do the same in “soccer”. Any player can stand on the goal line in soccer, but only goalkeeper can use hands.
It's not professional , completly amateur, most have odinary jobs and do all the training at night the biggest competition is the All Ireland Championship, where the 32 counites 26 that make the Republic and the 6 that make up Northern Ireland battle it out . The final is held in Croke Park in Dublin an 80,000 seater satium every year.
How about the guys using a steel(think that’s what I heard)ball and Hurl. I do remember it was one man hitting it around a village in the least amount of hits!
I realise this video was first seen 7 months ago. But I give all credit to the guys for their genuine interest. The pronouncing of words etc are off.. BUT folks need to remember that Words are pretty much pronounced by how they pronounce the english alphabeth. Like in the Irish Alphabeth have 18 letters. So many words will be pronounced wrong without someone setting them on that right path.
3:09 "A bit different from soccer, or what you guys would call football..." Actually, we tend to call it soccer as well. Like you guys and the Aussies we have our own sport called football. ("Gaelic football' is the full term, the guy mentions it near the start of the video)
it varies from county to county. in all ulster counties football is the dominant sport. in munster I'd argue hurling is more popular. but its not a blanket answer for the whole country
Gaelic Football would be a bigger sport than Hurling, as Hurling is played in particular areas of the country at the top level (due to the historic fact mentioned about the sport being sustained by bigger aristocratic estates in the past). So Hurling tends to be played in counties and areas that had much better land. Gaelic Football, which has similarities, is played almost everywhere across the Island. But even in places where Hurling isn't the dominant sport, it is highly respected, and still played, just not at the high levels that it would be in 'Hurling counties'. For example in Kilkenny in the southeast of the country, hurling is almost a religion, and babies are born holding hurleys in their hands, but in the historically poorer county of Donegal in the Northwest, where Gaelic football is the main sport, I remember one of my friends made his schools Hurling team purely on the basis that he owned a hurley. As far as international play, the GAA has clubs amongst the Irish diaspora right around the world, and there are actually many clubs for example in the USA, with obviously places like New York and Chicago having a bigger presence, and actually having fairly large field and facilities in those cities. In fact in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics in the US, both Hurling and Gaelic Football were demonstration sports, with some clubs from Chicago winning the competitions. You should check out a video of actual game play. The guy you watched had a pretty good breakdown of the sport, with a few mispronciations, but minor ones in my opinion. But to really appreciate the magic of the sport, you need to see the pace and skill of the sport in full action. You could also check out Gaelic Football. BTW.... Its a totally amateur sport, but its played to a professional standard. Croke Park, the national stadium of the GAA, holds approximately 85,000 people and is the 4th largest stadium in Europe, and getting a ticket to major matches, especially the final of the summer Championship is incredibly difficult.
Hurling is amazing. I live in a village on the West Coast of Ireland that is home to 3 of the top players in the country. If you ever visit the West Coast, let me know and I will take you to a game and try to introduce you to some of the players. I regularly see children as young as 4 in my village, in the local club strips practicing hurling. Also, all players are amateurs!
Hurling is indeed played the world over wherever the Irish have settled, but is mainly confined to that community. You might actually be surprised that there could be a hurling club and league quite near you wherever you live in the United States. Hurling is hugely popular throughout Ireland, but is only really played at the most elite level in counties to the south of Dublin: in Kilkenny, Tipperary, Limerick, Galway, Cork, Laois etc, though it is also played at a high level of skill and popularity in the counties of Down and especially Antrim in the North of Ireland. Hurling is also played in many other counties, but at a lower level than the more elite counties named above. It should be understood that wherever and whenever hurling is played it is an amateur sport played by amateurs even at the most elite levels. Nobody gets paid, nobody gets transferred from one team to another. Wherever you are born that is where you play in local hurling clubs, with the dream of representing your own county at the national championships. Despite being amateur sportsmen and women, the elite players of hurling and camogie play to a professional standard, utterly dedicated to their sport and the success of their own club team and county. And being amateurs they risk serious injury despite having to go to work the next day. The GAA as an amateur body is one of the greatest sporting organisations in the world, and its headquarters stadium Croke Park is maybe the fifth biggest stadium in Europe, with a capacity of more than 82,000 seats which are all filled for the great games of the All Ireland championships of Gaelic Football and hurling. This gives a clear impression of the wide popularity of hurling and gaelic football throughout the island of Ireland. I would certainly recommend that you look next at a video showing how the game of hurling is played,, its rules and the skills on display at the most elite levels. Having seen that you will clearly see how this is easily one of the fastest field games that exists today. As for hurling showing elements of other sports it would perhaps be more apt to say that those sports show elements of hurling. No other sport can boast a history going back to ancient times, so it is just silly to say that hurling copies them in any respect.
Every village in Ireland has a Gaa grounds and play either gaelic football or hurling.. or both.. In Ireland gaelic football is just called football while what's called football in many other countries in Ireland is only called soccer..
I don't think the myth is a myth this is a game that predates history and Shinty in Scotland was introduced by the Scottii tribe when they settled in the West coast of Scotland. The guy doing the video was a bit all over the place, bringing Irish culture with Scottish clan tartans on the wall behind him. And you'd think that during his research he'd have asked someone somewhere how to pronounce the names.😂
Hurling is five thousand years old. Gealic football going back to 18th century. America 🇺🇸 has three majority America 🇺🇸 population in America cities from western to Eastern America states.
Former camogie (female version of hurling) player here. There’s no dip on the hurl (for info, the hurl is traditionally made of ash wood). If anything, it’s slightly convex. 05:00 It looks like a penalty was being taken, so there are more players guarding the goal. There’s only one goalie per team. The ball (sliothar) has a solid cork interior and is wrapped with two pieces of leather stitched together with a raised outward facing seam (it hurts a lot if you’re hit with one). The old IRA and IRB aren’t connected to the more recent organization of the same name. The mispronunciation of practically every hurling or Irish-specific word on the video clip is jarring to the ears of any Irish person watching this… It’s a shame that they didn’t have this checked by the GAA or basically any actual Irish person, as it spoils an otherwise interesting video and misinforms the viewers).
The pronunciation grated on my ears and I'm English having lived in the rebel county for 25 years, then a lot of American pronunciation does.
The rules have been changed regarding penalties only the goalkeeper is alowed to defend a penalty ,that was probably a free from just outside the parallelogram
thanks, was going to start the pronunciation rant myself :3
Ýes and it's not a mixture of a whole lot of sports. Since it has existed for thousands of years it was around first!
Obviously not a penalty. Only the goalkeeper is allowed to be in the goal during a penalty
GAA (Gaelic Football and Hurling) is actually played by Irish communities all over the world.
The New York team play in the (Irish) national league.
Remember, it wasn’t a famine. It was a Genocide created by policies in London. There was a Famine all over Europe, and nobody died like the Irish.
It was a famine and it was genocide,both those things can be true at the same time
@@gallowglass2630 I apologize that’s what I was saying. There was a potato blight throughout Europe in the US. But specifically laissez-faire policies from London is to blame for a majority of the death that happened in Ireland.
@@gallowglass2630 a famine implies no foods.there was 10s of 1000s of tons of food robbed under armed guard by the english.so it was genocide
@@jgg59 While people were dieing in Ireland because of a potato blight, Ireland was exporting huge amounts of foodstuffs to England, who were our colonial masters. The records kept by the English confirm the amounts of food they took out of Ireland. They owned most of the land because they stole it humdreds of years before. Like all colonials do. England wanted to suppress the Irish who were constantly revolting against English rule. Killing them by famine was one way of suppressing the people.
Israel stealing Palestinian land is very similar, which is why the Irish sympathise with the Palestinians. America stealing the land from the indigenous population. Oppression never ends.
@@kaboomblueskies i’m a little confused why you’re responding to me since this is exactly what I was saying I think maybe you were responding to the wrong person. I know my history.
Hurling has been played for about 3,000 years. None of the players get paid. They play to represent their County & for the love of the game. Each County has its own colours. The players have jobs so after playing in even very important matches they are back at work after. The Counties play off each other until it finally ends up with the final 2 teams and they play "the All Ireland Hurling Final" - with over 82,000 spectators in Dublin. It's a huge event in Ireland, as is the All Ireland Gaelic Football Final. Try & watch highlights from finals. It's a magnificent game. Such skill and courage needed from the players. The girls play the same but theirs is called Camogie. 👍
Don't get paid officially.
@@conanclarke9308no we don't get paid kiddo
@@AlainnCorcaigh I'm not the taxman don't worry.
It an amueter sport that means no money
@@AlainnCorcaighofficially kiddo. Inter county players have gotten cars etc
Hurling was played long before the introduction of golf, hockey, football, lacrosse.
“Why would they outlaw it?”
Cultural suppression. Language, arts, religion, sports, education. All things that define a culture and all things you ban when you’re intent on destroying that culture.
Ethnic cleansing.
The UK already banned it and every other part of Irish culture including our native language till the Easter rising in 1916 left us to be able to become a Republic in 1947. Which is when we fully got rid of our colonial invaders of 800 years
Cause it was Coulter and they wanted to strip us of are culture and wanted us to be pesidents to them
people just romanticise it now , like the brits just slaughtered us, literally murdered us for speaking our own words! you are putting it lightly ! lol we are so sound about it really ...
Sure didn't the English also banned the Irish people from speaking Irish
Best game in The World🙌🇮🇪
There is no dip in the hurl, it’s flat. Very hard to balance the Slitoir (which is very hard and heavy) on it for most people.
There aren’t multiple players in the goal either - really only for Free’s etc. That was a free you were looking at.
The skill level, the sheer quickness of the game and the physicality makes it the best game in the world imo. And then take into account it’s an amateur sport - players are not paid.
Hi Steve, hurling and Gaelic football are contested in Ireland on a county basis, culminating in the All Ireland finals at Croke Park in Dublin. You'll find plenty of past finals on TH-cam. The history of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) shows that politics and sport overlapping is nothing new.
Irish cameramen were on strike years ago so some English camera guys were sent over to film the finals. They couldn't follow the ball, the whole game was way too fast for them 😀
The hurl is flat. The sliotar (ball) is fecking rock hard.
To play for one of the 35 county teams you have to be actually from the county.
😂😂😂🎉
Wouldn't like to be sitting behind the goal if the sliotar came over the bar.
@@irene3196 There is a net in front of the crowd. but none the less. the ball does go into the crowd now and again. people just catch it. it is very similar in size and feel to a cricket ball or baseball.
@@irene3196 🤣🤣🤣
Now realizing the ball is actually hard makes this game even more interesting. If you get hit with that thing at full speed its got to hurt.
Its a dangerous game. My father got his leg broken playing it in his youth and was 6 weeks at home with his leg up on a stool without painkillers! My father's family were too poor to pay a doctor. Big sport in Kilkenny. X
The term soccer is used quite frequently in Ireland for the same reason as in the United States; we have our own type of football. Two other Irish sports worth checking out are road bowling and Irish handball. There's also pitch and putt, which is a more modern creation. It's basically a simplified version of golf, played on a smaller course with only two clubs.
Not to forget rounders
wtf is road bowling , im irish ye talkin shite hun sthtop giving it ALL away x
@@clairebatt4030 Very popular in Cork and Antrim counties.
Yeah my ex was Scottish and didn't like how I classified Poofball as Soccer. 🙄 lol
@@jasonwall5012oh my got the memories! I Love rounders !!!!!
Cú Chulainn - correct pronunciation Coo Cull-lin . Sliothar is pronounced Slit-ter.
My ears nearly bled hearing his pronunciation. I know it's to be expected but still😂
Was about to ask, who the hell the guy was giving his take on Hurling. His pronunciation is appalling. Somebody did give you a proper idea of it. Camogie is not camogee it’s Camogie. He’s insulation our Irish language.
Some of those pronunciations were pretty rough. Camogie is definitely not said that way 😂
So true and Galicia 😂😂
brutal
Sleeetor 😂😂
I know lmao
I really wish people would stop referring to the famine as such.we where still growing wheat, barley and every food available but we had to give it to our English landlord.we where starved to death by the british.please stop calling it a famine.
same for ethiopia, it was tedros, leader of the who, who genocided people through starvation deliberately. there was food.
Exactly
I am so surprised that The Marvel film never used Cú Chulainn as a hero as he had some Crazy skills
he would kick Thor arse.Cuchulainn’s reputation as a warrior grew in Irish folk tales until he came to be regarded as a demigod. In some ways, the Irish hero resembled the Greek hero Achilles. But unlike Achilles and other Greek heroes, Cuchulainn had many supernatural powers. For example, he could spit fire in battle. He was also a magician and poet. Cuchulainn became a favorite character among writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance of the late 1800's up Tipperary,Tiobraid Árann Abú!
The Marvel comics have had the Celtic Gods appear (including CuChulainn, even though he's a human with a dash of Sidhe blood), once visiting Asgard; one of the Thor films had a council of godheads appear, where, bizarrely, Zeus was the leader. Perhaps the Tuatha de are visible in those scenes.
Marvel also has the 'otherworld,' a fantastic realm that maps a bit onto the British Isles and Ireland, where fey, heroes, kings, etc, sometimes with an Alice in Wonderland slant exist in the Marvel Universe.
The Black Knight character (seen in 'The Eternals') is connected to that realm, as is Captain Britain and Elizabeth Braddock, and others, such as the New Mutants teams have visited.
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My Gr Grandad Murt Cashin was heavily involved in Hurling all of his life, both as a player and latter into coaching and management. He was founding chairman of St Canices (Rosbercon) and then following its merger with Tullogher chairman of the combined Tullogher-Rosbercon.
It is said that Hurling was a sport that Chieftains or Kings made their warriors play to keep them fit and strong during times of peace, this could also explain why the Normans banned it. It does take incredible stamina, hand and eye coordination to play.
Thanks for this post, Steve. In the Outlander series, after a boar hunt, the hunters return to find a vicious game of Shinty (Scottish version of Hurling) going on. Jamie and his uncle joined in and ended up trying to kill each other in the game.
Thats how i became aware of outlander through looking at that clip
There is also a Manx version of yhe game called Cammag. Very very amateur and a bit like royal rumble with unofficial sticks (made from absolutely anything). Also a video on TH-cam about Cammag 👍🏼
No professional teams, it's all amature, just for the love of it.
My stepdad played this at school in the 70's, before the days of health and safety... And he's got the scars 😂
I am from the UK and this is the first time I have learned anything about this sport. It looks like it would be a lot more fun than football while being a lot less violent than rugby. I had always thought hurling was another name for what the Scottish did with hammers or logs.
If you check out a video featuring a game being played you will see that hurling is in fact a highly physical sport, almost on a par with Australian Rules Football. Serious injuries are not unheard of, but the rules laid down by the GAA keep players relatively safe. Having said that, hurling is not a game for cissies. It can be violent, rough and utterly exciting all at the same time.
@@76ludlow more like if you gave aussie rules some sticks and said don't hit each other... (at times)
@@WookieWarriorz I would say most hurlers in Antrim and in Down don't consider themselves Northern Irish, except in a geographical sense. In the GAA world there is only Ireland, and certainly no Northern Ireland.
Oh it can be violent 😂
Rugby is not a violent game, Union or league, just looks so. Condolence to Scotland who will be going back home early.
Hurling is indeed the oldest stick-and-ball game in the world. It was outlawed not only by the 12th Century Anglo-Normans, to suppress Irish or Celtic identity in line with British colonialism, but by the British government in 1918 (as were all Gaelic games) as they saw the GAA as a "dangerous organisation", believing it fostered Irish republicanism. On that note, you must dive deeper into the event of Bloody Sunday (1920) - I'd recommend watching the scene from the movie 'Michael Collins'.
Some pronunciation corrections (there were quite a few!):
'Shlitter' (the ball)
'Coo-KULLan' (the hero)
'Gay-lick' ('Gallick' refers to the Scottish language only)
'Cam-OGUE-ee' (female offshoot of hurling)
Yes. Ken Loach's anti-imperialist film _The Wind that Shakes the Barley_ includes a hurling plot strand and is also worth a look.
Love this game my grandsons play it such a fast game you need to attend a game the atmosphere is something else
John Gregson’s 1958 film Rooney was a comedy about an. Irish dustman who played Hurling in his spare time and I remember the Hurling being very exciting.
I watched it as a child on English tv.
I used to watch this on channel 4, great game.
Having received many skelps of a hurl, plenty of bruises, plenty of blood (the time before helmets were introduced) I always have a giggle when professional footballers (soccer) writhe on the ground after a slight push.
I'd like you to do one comparing it with Scotish Shinty,Ireland & the western Islands of Scotland share much in Culture & Language !!
My nephew plays in the Washington DC area. His team goes to the Gaelic games in the US. I saw him play a couple of years ago when the games were held in Canton, Massachusetts. Spectating really needs grandstands to get a bit higher to see the action on field. Hard game, you have to be in shape. Funny thing. The guys directing traffic to the parking areas were Irish-Irish, not Irish-Americans. Took me aback for a couple of seconds.
Looks to be a better game than "Soccer".
The guy who’s name I use for my TH-cam account, along with the profile picture is that of Christy Ring, arguably the greatest hurler of all time. Played for Cork between roughly 1940 and 1960. A hurling icon
Ice hockey is a north American sport that was from hurling. The GAA players are part time employment wild playing Hurling and Gealic football matches with men and women
That's why a lot of Irish Hurlers are pretty good golfers.
It's exciting to watch! it's a rough sport, I remember my Dad telling me he had stitches over one eye one weekend and the other the next.
Before the hemets it used to be like a cross between Hockey & Murder....Some of the worst head injuries youre ever going to see,like imagine when its a cold winters day & someone gets smashed with the Hurling stick & it opens them up from top of their ear to the top of their nose & shatters their eye socket..Well that was a Tuesday in Hurling
Ah, the good old days. 🤣😂🤣👍🇮🇪
I am happy that you enjoyed the hurling video. I noticed that you compared Hurling to a number of sports like hockey etc, but you need to know as was pointed out in the video that the sport of Hurling is thousands of years old, so it does not take any influence from any of these sports.
The top game of the year is called the All Ireland Final, which is played in August. This is played in the largest stadium in Ireland called Croke Park. Over 80000 people attend the final every year. The other thing to remember is that all players both in Hurling and Gaelic Football are amateur. All have regular day jobs, including teachers, gardai (police) and previously , priests.
did the fella in the hurling video pronounce any of the names right lol 😂😂😂 it's flat no dip, it's a tough game. my county won the All Ireland this year, Co Clare 💛💙
'Running field stick and ball' games are known the world over, many variations.
Shinty in Britain is sometimes considered a subset of Hockey, but the Scots correctly maintain it's native to Scotland, while hockey variations seem to have derived from Hurley, Shinty and others arriving at Hockey, then played on ice.
The big variation is if the game is played around the edge of a space, with corners or bases, or across the space, such as baseball, cricket etc, v lacrosse, etc. If we drop the sticks we arrive at netball, basketball, korfball, and many others.
Hurley is specific, but it's on the spectrum.
The many variations of 'running field ball' (no stick) games is also enormous, usually with a split about how or if the ball is handled or carried.
OUR COUNTRIES CALLED ERIN THE ENGLISH CALL IT IRELAND, ITS CALLED ERIN AFTER OUR GODDESS ERIU💪👸👍
I'm English and I found this most interesting. My parents had a long retirement on a Scottish island, and there I came across Shinty. Now Highlanders and Islanders are warriors, and Shinty looks terrifying to me. It's played with a crooked stick called a 'caman', and shinty is called 'camanachd' in Scottish Gaelic.
'A possible equivalent further south is Bandy, which I believe is still played in South Wales. There is a stained-glass panel in Gloucester Cathedaral ( from the 14th century). A player has a curved stick and a ball.
Anybody got information about these?
I played shinty at primary school in a part of Scotland called...... Ipswich! I have no idea why we played it or how authentic our version was but it was great fun.
Ireland play Scotland Shinty match shortly
With the h silencing the C in Cuchulain.. I always pronounced it Coohulan rather than Cooculan..
Take a look at Shinty, it's a Scottish stick and ball game. There's usually a game played each year between the Scottish and Irish champions. Pretty brutal.
Aussie rules football appears to owe part of it's origin to Gaelic football despite desperate attempts to say it was an Aboriginal game.
I will say as an ex British soldier with Irish and Scottish roots who served in Northern Ireland for a while leave "The Troubles" alone, it's way too divisive a topic.
Everything is divisive if you think about
@@gallowglass2630 There's divisive and then there's topics which can start fights leading to deaths. 12 years as a soldier and 20 in the police proved that to me far too often.
There are about 20 hurling clubs in the US.
Interesting! Didn't realize that.
Yes, the IRB was the forerunner of the Official IRA, which then splintered into the IRA.
Interesting video I have not played hurling but will have to try the sport if I get the chance. A sport played in England is called Crown Green Bowling. You might have heard of Bowling or Flat Green Bowling (2003 film Blackball) but the rules for Crown Green Bowling is slightly different.
Oh shit lol😅 hurling is thousands of years old please don't try and compete
@@Irish780 There is no chance I could compete, way too old and not even a fast runner.
Cu Chullann was a pre-Christian, Iron Age Warrior/Hero. If you want to get an idea of what 'knockdown' or 'hurling' was like in ancient, pre-Christian times, just have a look at 'The Last of the Mohicans' movie where Daniel Day Lewis ('Hawkeye') and the Mohicans would prefer to play a wild version of 'Lacrosse' than volunteer to fight for the English in their war with the French in Canada. Exciting & exhilarating! Ice Hockey is said to be based on Hurling. BTW, the Normans & English would have banned the game in Ireland as it was a good way to practice Martial Arts Skills without traditional weapons.
This is not a professional sport.
There are only 32 counties in Ireland. You have to be born in the county to be able to play for it.
When a free hit is given, other players can help defend the goal. If a penalty is given the goalkeeper is the only one allowed to defend the goal. The penalty is taken from 21 yards.
Besides the counties there are local clubs that play the game in organised competitions. There are 2,200 local community clubs in the 32 counties.
The bedrock of hurling is in three provinces, Munster, Leinster and Connaught. In Munster 21 teams compete for the Harty cup. These teams would normally supply the players for their respective counties.
The latest All Ireland final took place on Sunday 21 July 2024 between Cork and Clare, both teams from Munster. It was a classic game and will give you a real feeling for the game and how ferocious it is. Absolutely incredible game. Enjoy. It is probably on youtube by now, If not look at last years final between Limerick and Kilkenny.
Comogie player here this is. The best sport ever
If you record on film and it’s well preserved the detail is incredible, usually when you’re watching old film it’s damage to the film that makes it look bad primarily. I’ve seen film from around the same time look even better than that
I still use 35mm black and white for my photography for that reason. Film selection and storage are key. Mould is a big enemy.
I pulled a couple of lenses out of storage, but only found the spores after I developed the film. A tiny patch of tendrils on the lens was super imposed on every print.. Barely visible to a casual inspection.. Not happy.
Stick is a Hurl. (though many say hurley or hurling stick) The hurl is basically flat but actually more likely to be rounded the wrong way to what you are thinking.
The ball is a sliotar and is said fast so the o basically disappears ( slit-ar)
Coo-Cull-ann (and not an american long "a" sound ann) and the legend is that the ball flew stright into the dogs throat..
(Making me think he was probably playing with the dog and the dog choked on his ball..)
Why outlaw the local game.. Same reason that later the English tthen after the act of union, British outlawed the religion, the language and so on.
They were trying to replace our culture with their own.
IRB is before the IRA and even the IRA was a fractured coalition of groups rather than 1 single organisation.
IRA were freedom fighters.. untill enough bad stuff happened on both sides and they started targeting civilian targets.
Cam-oh-gie.
Of all the video's, why do reacters not pick someone who is from the area being talked about that know how to pronounce the different terms.
There is a big GAA presence in the US and Austrailia FYI.
Any athlete competing in the GAA must be Amature.. as in un-paid other than expenses covered. The skill is V high and Ireland has lost many great football (Gaelic) players to Aussie rules because of it.
The GAA is a V corrupt organisation(IMO). You find the top of it is VERY not connected to the bottom. It reminds me of the church in many ways. There is MASSIVE wealth in the organisation but it's not distributed equally. It lives and breathes on the backs of many thousands of voulenteers in running the local clubs and such and the players that don't get paid for their efforts. Not to mention government money to build their stadium.
This video was a good(ish) intro to hurling, covering the history and some of the mythology associated.
This was a terrible video for showing how fast paced the game is or comparing various skills to other sports for context.
E.G. The ball is kinda like a baseball though a bit smaller. They catch it in their bare hands when it's travelling at speeds of around 100Mph.
Helmets are not mandatory and you have people jumping to catch the ball in their hand or knock it down with their hurl, in the same place at the same time and there could be a group of 4 - 6 competing for the ball.
UNESCO has it listed as not only the fastest field game in the world but also the oldest.
Yes, the hurley stick's face is flat and it takes a lot of practice to become adept at moving the ball around at speed. I have never been more bruised than my days playing hurling.
CAMOJIE 🥰🥰🥰 pronunciations are so cute!!!!
The hurl has a flat top with no divot but the slither has groves on it which makes it easier to balance, it still requires a lot of skill tho to balance the ball
5:38 just wanted to the opportuniy to mention the 2023 shinty-hurling international is next saturday.
His prunication if Irish names is shocking. 😅
There's no dip in the hurley.
The hurl doesn't have a dip, but the ball (sliotair) has ridges on it.
No there is no dip in it it is completley flat. And hurling is also played in other countries such as australia,england,cambodia and more
I knew nothing about it either. I had heard "hurling" before, but I thought it was that ice bowls thing😂😂
Huge part of irish culture you have phrases like senior hurling meaning top level and lovely hurling which is when things go right
That's Curling
It is not difficult to remaster old b/w film and make it look like new.
The best Hurling video is ""Hurling-the fastest game on grass" over on Eamons channel.
Shinty is the Scottish version of hurling and they do play between themselves.
Hurling is a skilled sport - not too bad nowadays with mouth guards, helmets and gloves but back in the day you could easily get a black eye or more serious injuries from the swinging of the hurleys.
There's no dip in a Hurly but it's easy to balance the ball on it. I had a hurly as a kid with the nose broken off, basically it was a big stick!!, and i could still run at full(ish) speed with the ball balanced on it.
7:16 It's pronounced koo kullin
14:30 Camogie is pronounced with a hard G, he almost had it
In the early 20th century in Ireland... It was a revival of all things Irish culture.. the languge, sport, music etc alongside the big push for Irish freedom from Britain..
Many Americans will have seen the film Michael Collins which portrayed the political and military events of that time..
1:00 Hurling is not only played in Ireland, it's starting to grow across the world. There is actually a GAA world games tournament l for the world to play in except ireland. 3:47 the hurley is flat, and at incurl part axe shape, its sharps in.
5:07 centuries 😂 its over 3000 years old, the ancient warriors use to play it, the train for battle. The samein the 1900's when the freedom fighters practiced for guns, they put the axe head in the armpit for the stock of the gun, and the tail of the hurl at the scope of the gun.
7:17 i dunno how he got that name either because that not his name, its not how its said whatsoever.
Hurling played on ice in Canada was called ice hurley the ball in hockey is called the puc ,when you strike the sliothar in hurling you say puc the Sliothar ,look at hurley sticks from 150 years ago ,exactly the same as ice hockey sticks
Would love to hear your reaction Steve to Irish traditional brush dance, particularly at an Irish wedding
I love going to 'Cruck' Park during the championship 😊
Croak Park Dublin..... Is where the ALL Ireland finals, are played.
Gaelic
Football
Hurling
Camogie...
I was joking about the gobshites pronunciation. I've been to Croak Parck many times,. And obviously it's not just finals
I meant PARK 🙃
I'm wondering if the woof mentioned was an Irish Wolf Hound ... they are massive gorgeous big animals.
yes in the legend it is an Irish wolfhound if you think they are big now they were much bigger in the past. The modern wolfhound is nothing to its ancestor. They almost went extinct in Ireland due to the fact that they were exported so much from the country.
Scotland has a similar game Called Shinty, Each year there’s an exhibition game where Scotland play Shinty rules against Irish national Hurling team, for the Camanachd GAA cup,
I don’t know much of the rules of either game, But it good viewing,
Not really that similar.they keep up the connection for cultural and historic reasons but they are not that similar.
@@gallowglass2630 at least they muddled a match out of it,
Does the Shinty and Hurling alter their rules for a game ✌️
@@ThomasKelly669 They do quite considerably,but its more towards shinty and they are allowed to use their own sticks .The pitch is a hurling pitch and the scoring is mostly hurling except for one score thats created specifically for the game.The key difference for hurlers is that they are not allowed to handle the ball
@@gallowglass2630 I need to start getting in to Hurling Watch some videos on it, I had one at it Shannon those around where surprised, I could hurl the ball about, must be in the genes 😂 thanks for the information 🫶🏴
Multiple people can guard the net. They can do the same in “soccer”. Any player can stand on the goal line in soccer, but only goalkeeper can use hands.
Go on the cats, up Kilkenny
It's not professional , completly amateur, most have odinary jobs and do all the training at night the biggest competition is the All Ireland Championship, where the 32 counites 26 that make the Republic and the 6 that make up Northern Ireland battle it out . The final is held in Croke Park in Dublin an 80,000 seater satium every year.
How about the guys using a steel(think that’s what I heard)ball and Hurl. I do remember it was one man hitting it around a village in the least amount of hits!
Hurling is almost 3 thousand year old 😊
the Norman "Statutes of Kilkenny" in the 13th century banned the game of "horlings" because of the high number of injuries and fatalities.
The shot you were looking at was a penalty shot sol the goalie with several other players was in front of the net
Awesome tutorial video. Aside from the narrator butchering the absolute hell out of all Gaelic words. ( understandably ) 😂
5:00 That's a penalty shot. You have three players on the goal line in this case.
The pronunciations in this video are funny
Hurling has the skills of hockey,lacrosse and baseball.
Tá a fhuaimniú uafásach! 😂
An-uafásach!
I realise this video was first seen 7 months ago. But I give all credit to the guys for their genuine interest. The pronouncing of words etc are off.. BUT folks need to remember that Words are pretty much pronounced by how they pronounce the english alphabeth. Like in the Irish Alphabeth have 18 letters. So many words will be pronounced wrong without someone setting them on that right path.
3:09 "A bit different from soccer, or what you guys would call football..."
Actually, we tend to call it soccer as well. Like you guys and the Aussies we have our own sport called football. ("Gaelic football' is the full term, the guy mentions it near the start of the video)
4:45 he's taking a free.So they are aloud to gaurd the net
Hurling is more popular than galic football
it varies from county to county. in all ulster counties football is the dominant sport. in munster I'd argue hurling is more popular. but its not a blanket answer for the whole country
Back in the day players didn't wear helmets, the ball was like a stone so many have been disfigured by hurling injuries
There's a team in new York that travels to Ireland to play in the all ireland etc
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Gaelic Football would be a bigger sport than Hurling, as Hurling is played in particular areas of the country at the top level (due to the historic fact mentioned about the sport being sustained by bigger aristocratic estates in the past). So Hurling tends to be played in counties and areas that had much better land. Gaelic Football, which has similarities, is played almost everywhere across the Island. But even in places where Hurling isn't the dominant sport, it is highly respected, and still played, just not at the high levels that it would be in 'Hurling counties'. For example in Kilkenny in the southeast of the country, hurling is almost a religion, and babies are born holding hurleys in their hands, but in the historically poorer county of Donegal in the Northwest, where Gaelic football is the main sport, I remember one of my friends made his schools Hurling team purely on the basis that he owned a hurley.
As far as international play, the GAA has clubs amongst the Irish diaspora right around the world, and there are actually many clubs for example in the USA, with obviously places like New York and Chicago having a bigger presence, and actually having fairly large field and facilities in those cities. In fact in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics in the US, both Hurling and Gaelic Football were demonstration sports, with some clubs from Chicago winning the competitions.
You should check out a video of actual game play. The guy you watched had a pretty good breakdown of the sport, with a few mispronciations, but minor ones in my opinion. But to really appreciate the magic of the sport, you need to see the pace and skill of the sport in full action.
You could also check out Gaelic Football.
BTW.... Its a totally amateur sport, but its played to a professional standard. Croke Park, the national stadium of the GAA, holds approximately 85,000 people and is the 4th largest stadium in Europe, and getting a ticket to major matches, especially the final of the summer Championship is incredibly difficult.
Hurling, as opposed to Curling. Need good eyesight to play this lol
Lol..
My friend got a hurl in the shoulder
There are shinty leagues in Scotland! 😀😀
There is Hurling and Gaelic Football in the USA
It's cu cullan that how you say it
Hurling is amazing. I live in a village on the West Coast of Ireland that is home to 3 of the top players in the country. If you ever visit the West Coast, let me know and I will take you to a game and try to introduce you to some of the players. I regularly see children as young as 4 in my village, in the local club strips practicing hurling. Also, all players are amateurs!
Hurling is indeed played the world over wherever the Irish have settled, but is mainly confined to that community. You might actually be surprised that there could be a hurling club and league quite near you wherever you live in the United States.
Hurling is hugely popular throughout Ireland, but is only really played at the most elite level in counties to the south of Dublin: in Kilkenny, Tipperary, Limerick, Galway, Cork, Laois etc, though it is also played at a high level of skill and popularity in the counties of Down and especially Antrim in the North of Ireland. Hurling is also played in many other counties, but at a lower level than the more elite counties named above.
It should be understood that wherever and whenever hurling is played it is an amateur sport played by amateurs even at the most elite levels. Nobody gets paid, nobody gets transferred from one team to another. Wherever you are born that is where you play in local hurling clubs, with the dream of representing your own county at the national championships. Despite being amateur sportsmen and women, the elite players of hurling and camogie play to a professional standard, utterly dedicated to their sport and the success of their own club team and county. And being amateurs they risk serious injury despite having to go to work the next day.
The GAA as an amateur body is one of the greatest sporting organisations in the world, and its headquarters stadium Croke Park is maybe the fifth biggest stadium in Europe, with a capacity of more than 82,000 seats which are all filled for the great games of the All Ireland championships of Gaelic Football and hurling. This gives a clear impression of the wide popularity of hurling and gaelic football throughout the island of Ireland.
I would certainly recommend that you look next at a video showing how the game of hurling is played,, its rules and the skills on display at the most elite levels. Having seen that you will clearly see how this is easily one of the fastest field games that exists today. As for hurling showing elements of other sports it would perhaps be more apt to say that those sports show elements of hurling. No other sport can boast a history going back to ancient times, so it is just silly to say that hurling copies them in any respect.
You have to come over to Ireland and see it getting played because the players don't go pay
Hockey was invented after an Irish lad in London played hurling on an ice rink
Every village in Ireland has a Gaa grounds and play either gaelic football or hurling.. or both..
In Ireland gaelic football is just called football while what's called football in many other countries in Ireland is only called soccer..
I don't think the myth is a myth this is a game that predates history and Shinty in Scotland was introduced by the Scottii tribe when they settled in the West coast of Scotland.
The guy doing the video was a bit all over the place, bringing Irish culture with Scottish clan tartans on the wall behind him. And you'd think that during his research he'd have asked someone somewhere how to pronounce the names.😂
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