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Michael Collins addressing players before throwing in the ball at Croke Park The occasion was the Kilkenny vs Tipperary All Ireland Final, 1922.	An early Central Council photograph c. 1888. Back Row from left: J. J. O'Reilly (Dublin), Dr. O'Connor (Clare), Rev. J. Concannon (Tullamore), John Cullinan (Bansha) and George F. Byrne (Navan). [...]	Extract from reports on the GAA by the Royal Irish Constabulary, 1890-91. The infiltration of the GAA by the Irish Republican Brotherhood prompted the authorities in Dublin Castle to monitor its activities. From 1887 onwards [...]
Document on swearing recruits into the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). The infiltration of the GAA by the Irish Republican Brotherhood prompted the authorities in Dublin Castle to monitor its activities. From 1887 onwards [...]	Extract from the Gael, official journal of the Gaelic Athletic Association, 7 January 1888. The extract relates to a Convention held at Thurles, on 4 January 1888, at which extreme nationalists were outnumbered and Maurice Davin was again ele [...]	Extract relating to hurling from Kerry, with a pen and ink drawing of a hurling scene, 1841.
Pen and ink drawing is signed 'Mackenzie Delin. 1805' The artist is possibly Charles MacKenzie, a 19th-century landscape painter.	Advertisement for Miss Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, Tipperary. It was reported in the Cork Examiner, 3 November 1884: 'A meeting of athletes and friends of athletics was held on Saturday, at three o'clock, in Miss [...]	His Grace the Most Reverend Dr. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel.
Edward Bennett, from Co. Clare, President of the GAA, 1887-88.	Souvenir of Dr Croke Cup Football Final, Jones's Road, 13 June, 1897. Photographed is the Dublin Young Ireland football team.	Tipperary (Thurles), team members of the first All-Ireland hurling final in 1887. This photograph was taken for posterity in June 1910.
The 'Invasion' team that toured the United States in 1888. The figure to the left with the hammer is Maurice Davin.	Photograph of Michael Cusack c. 1880s. By 1884 Cusack was promoting the idea of a ntional organisation for the preservation and promotion of tradtional games. Two nationalist newspapers, Un [...]	Maurice Davin photographed with his many sports medals c. 1880s. Maurice Davin was a farmer from Carrick-on-Suir who had been a gifted athlete in his youth. His views on sport were of much interest to Irish people a [...]
Copy of a coloured aquatint by John Hogarty, 1831. It shows hurlers at Derrynane, Co. Kerry, home of Daniel O'Connell, who can be seen on the left of the picture.	The game of hurling illustrated by the Dublin Metropolitan Hurling Club. Moves shown left to right: Tossing the ball; Goal keeper; and open "puck"; "side your own"; a warm corner; a fly catch; coaxing; T. Molohan & Michael [...]	Illustration of a game of hurling, c. 1890. By the middle of the nineteenth century hurling was no longer played in many parts of Ireland. A tamer version known as hurley was played in Trinity C [...]
Handball playing in Ireland, 1884. Moves shown left to right,: serving out the ball; a close shave; an overhand back stroke; an underhand cut; a backhander; "killing" it; "dodging" clos [...]

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