GAA Museum celebrating 125 years of GAA History
Welcome to the new look GAA Museum newsletter! This year the GAA celebrates 125 years of Ireland’s unique sporting and cultural heritage. The GAA Museum has organised a year of special events which will be published in our new look calendar of events and newsletter. Highlights floodlit tours, a memory wall, legends tours, a sports history conference and a special 125th Anniversary GAA Museum Lecture Series. Some of the first museum events of the year include an upcoming week of midterm events for all the family- details below.
This is your opportunity to join the GAA Museum in commemorating 125 years of history, legends, sporting action and great memories.
GAA Museum Memory Wall
On the 20th February the GAA Museum will launch its new Memory Wall giving museum visitors an opportunity to record their special GAA moments and memories. Do you have a special GAA memory? If so why not take a stroll down memory lane and record your personal GAA story for future generations on the Museum’s Memory Wall
For more information or to send in your GAA memories please contact the museum’s Education Officer Selina O’Regan on 01 8192361 or email soregan@crokepark.ie
The Telling Tall Tales Tour- Family Tour
Monday 16th to Friday 20th February, 14.30 DAILY
Take an extra special tour of Croke Park during the midterm break where the tour guide might be telling lies, tut tut! Come along and see if you can tell when our guides are telling tall tales or when they are actually telling the truth! Ages 6+ Booking is essential as places are limited.
Adults €8, Child €4, Student/Senior €6, Family €25
Let there be light! Floodlit tours
Friday 20th February – 18.30, 19.00 and 19.30
The GAA Museum will open its doors for a special night of floodlit tours. What better way to celebrate the GAA’s milestone 125th Anniversary than by discovering the magic of Croke Park under floodlights. Please note that booking is essential as places are limited.
Adults €8, Child €4, Student/Senior €6, Family €25
Art Attack – Time Travellers
Saturday 21st February, 14.30 – 16.00
Step back in time with GAA Museum staff to learn a little more about the founding of the GAA 125 years ago. Afterwards make your own GAA timeline with important dates from history and from your own life! Booking is essential as places are limited.
Ages 6+, €4 per child
GAA Museum 125 Fact File- No 1
At 3.00 p.m. on Saturday 1st November 1884, a group of seven men met in the billiard-room of Miss Hayes’s Commercial Hotel in Thurles, and there founded the Gaelic Athletic Association for the Preservation and Cultivation of National Pastimes. The seven founder members were Michael Cusack, Maurice Davin (who presided) John Wyse Power, John McKay, J. K. Bracken, Joseph O’Ryan and Thomas St. George McCarthy. Later Cusack commented that the Association ‘swept the country like a prairie fire’.