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...national game because it is played by all Irishmen and by no one else. The game is so old that no one knows how it started; perhaps it began when two Irishmen fought with clubs for possession of a potato and their neighbors took sides. There was hurling in Ireland a thousand years ago and it has been played ever since. Until fairly recently, the whole male population of a town or a village might take part in a game. A few rules and regulations were introduced when the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed in 1884, but not so many...
Every county in Ireland has a hurling team to represent it, composed of hurlers who play for love of the game. In the U. S., in cities where there is a large Irish population, the game is similarly played by teams of hurlers who represent the counties where they or their forbears were born. Hurling games in the U. S. are often preceded by Gaelic football, followed by social festivities. Since all kinds of Irishmen play hurling, all kinds of Irishmen watch them play. In the crowd at a hurling game, as in the personnel of a hurling team...
Since 1884, Tipperary has won the All-Ireland championship eleven times. In 1926, the Tipperary team visited the U. S., won ten games in a row. All-Ireland champions in 1930, the Tipperary hurling team arrived in the U. S. again last week, began another six-week tour to include Somerville (Mass.), Manhattan, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco...
Promoter of Tipperary's All-Ireland Champions is Dan Breen, famed leader of Sinn Fein riots from 1919 to 1923, onetime Commandant General of the Third Tipperary Brigade in the Irish Republican Army, before that a famed Tipperary hurler...
...first impact struck the Jesuit mission on the shorefront, lifted it, sifted it through its invisible hands like a pack of cards. There perished ten priests. They had come a long way to die: from St. Louis, from Buffalo, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Superior and Racine (Wis.), Reading (Pa.), from Ireland, from Spain...