GAA: beloved for generations across all ages Histories and folklore, stories and legend abound about the ancient Gaelic sports of Ireland. These native games have a rich modern history, peopled by famous names and fabled places, from Ring and Mackey, Purcell and...
GAA played in Croke Park 1929 The intensely passionate addiction for Gaelic sports held by Irish ex-pats did not just form after the establishment of the GAA in 1884. There are accounts the world over which narrates the Irish grá for the clash of the ash and the big...
In this the final of our three part look at the clash of the ash and salmon like leaps for midfield aerial supremacy across the world of Gaelic games, we recall some famous and infamous Gaelic sporting events from days of yore, where in some remote or fabled corner...
Thomas Davis “Gentlemen, you have a country” – these are not words uttered by the Celtic Times but by an Irishman, Thomas Davis. An Irishman and a master. Born almost 200 years ago in that historic crossroads of Munster, the innovative heritage town...
John Philip Holland inventor of the submarine In 1904, two of the most innovative lights of the Age of Invention were reflecting upon the merits of their creations. The younger man, Thomas A Edison, “The Wizard of Menlo Park”, numbered the light bulb, the phonograph...
