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| Titre : | Accounting for the early success of the Gaelic Athletic Association (2004) |
| Auteurs : | Neal GARNHAM, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 34 n 133 2004) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 65-78 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Writing some years after the events he was describing, Michael Cusack, the first secretary of the Gaelic Athletic Association, suggested that in its early years the ' Association swept the country like a prairie fire. This is perhaps a little exaggerated, but its success was striking. Eighteen months after its foundation the G.A.A. was reckoned to 50, 000 individual members. Six months later there were around 400 affiliated clubs. The relative success of the G.A.A. is particularly apparent when its progress is compared with that of two of its rival organisations. The Irish Football Association was founded in 1880. Ten years later only 124 clubs had affiliated to it. By the same date the G.A.A., founded in 1884, had 875 member clubs. In the case of rugby, an initial Irish Union membership of thirteen clubs in 1874 had not reached a hundred six years later |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Neal Garnham |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
