The English tried to ban it as well. This guys pronunciation of the Irish names was shocking😂

Former camogie (female version of hurling) player here. There’s no dip on the hurl (for info, the hurl is traditionally made of ash wood). If anything, it’s slightly convex. 05:00 It looks like a penalty was being taken, so there are more players guarding the goal. There’s only one goalie per team. The ball (sliothar) has a solid cork interior and is wrapped with two pieces of leather stitched together with a raised outward facing seam (it hurts a lot if you’re hit with one). The old IRA and IRB aren’t connected to the more recent organization of the same name. The mispronunciation of practically every hurling or Irish-specific word on the video clip is jarring to the ears of any Irish person watching this… It’s a shame that they didn’t have this checked by the GAA or basically any actual Irish person, as it spoils an otherwise interesting video and misinforms the viewers).

Remember, it wasn’t a famine. It was a Genocide created by policies in London. There was a Famine all over Europe, and nobody died like the Irish.

Hurling was played long before the introduction of golf, hockey, football, lacrosse.

Hurling has been played for about 3,000 years. None of the players get paid. They play to represent their County & for the love of the game. Each County has its own colours. The players have jobs so after playing in even very important matches they are back at work after. The Counties play off each other until it finally ends up with the final 2 teams and they play "the All Ireland Hurling Final" - with over 82,000 spectators in Dublin. It's a huge event in Ireland, as is the All Ireland Gaelic Football Final. Try & watch highlights from finals. It's a magnificent game. Such skill and courage needed from the players. The girls play the same but theirs is called Camogie. 👍

I really wish people would stop referring to the famine as such.we where still growing wheat, barley and every food available but we had to give it to our English landlord.we where starved to death by the british.please stop calling it a famine.

Cú Chulainn - correct pronunciation Coo Cull-lin . Sliothar is pronounced Slit-ter.

GAA (Gaelic Football and Hurling) is actually played by Irish communities all over the world. The New York team play in the (Irish) national league.

“Why would they outlaw it?” Cultural suppression. Language, arts, religion, sports, education. All things that define a culture and all things you ban when you’re intent on destroying that culture.

Some of those pronunciations were pretty rough. Camogie is definitely not said that way 😂

Best game in The World🙌🇮🇪 There is no dip in the hurl, it’s flat. Very hard to balance the Slitoir (which is very hard and heavy) on it for most people. There aren’t multiple players in the goal either - really only for Free’s etc. That was a free you were looking at. The skill level, the sheer quickness of the game and the physicality makes it the best game in the world imo. And then take into account it’s an amateur sport - players are not paid.

The term soccer is used quite frequently in Ireland for the same reason as in the United States; we have our own type of football. Two other Irish sports worth checking out are road bowling and Irish handball. There's also pitch and putt, which is a more modern creation. It's basically a simplified version of golf, played on a smaller course with only two clubs.

Hi Steve, hurling and Gaelic football are contested in Ireland on a county basis, culminating in the All Ireland finals at Croke Park in Dublin. You'll find plenty of past finals on KZfaq. The history of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) shows that politics and sport overlapping is nothing new.

Its a dangerous game. My father got his leg broken playing it in his youth and was 6 weeks at home with his leg up on a stool without painkillers! My father's family were too poor to pay a doctor. Big sport in Kilkenny. X

Irish cameramen were on strike years ago so some English camera guys were sent over to film the finals. They couldn't follow the ball, the whole game was way too fast for them 😀 The hurl is flat. The sliotar (ball) is fecking rock hard. To play for one of the 35 county teams you have to be actually from the county.

Hurling is indeed the oldest stick-and-ball game in the world. It was outlawed not only by the 12th Century Anglo-Normans, to suppress Irish or Celtic identity in line with British colonialism, but by the British government in 1918 (as were all Gaelic games) as they saw the GAA as a "dangerous organisation", believing it fostered Irish republicanism. On that note, you must dive deeper into the event of Bloody Sunday (1920) - I'd recommend watching the scene from the movie 'Michael Collins'. Some pronunciation corrections (there were quite a few!): 'Shlitter' (the ball) 'Coo-KULLan' (the hero) 'Gay-lick' ('Gallick' refers to the Scottish language only) 'Cam-OGUE-ee' (female offshoot of hurling)

I am so surprised that The Marvel film never used Cú Chulainn as a hero as he had some Crazy skills he would kick Thor arse.Cuchulainn’s reputation as a warrior grew in Irish folk tales until he came to be regarded as a demigod. In some ways, the Irish hero resembled the Greek hero Achilles. But unlike Achilles and other Greek heroes, Cuchulainn had many supernatural powers. For example, he could spit fire in battle. He was also a magician and poet. Cuchulainn became a favorite character among writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance of the late 1800's up Tipperary,Tiobraid Árann Abú!

No professional teams, it's all amature, just for the love of it.

It is said that Hurling was a sport that Chieftains or Kings made their warriors play to keep them fit and strong during times of peace, this could also explain why the Normans banned it. It does take incredible stamina, hand and eye coordination to play.

My Gr Grandad Murt Cashin was heavily involved in Hurling all of his life, both as a player and latter into coaching and management. He was founding chairman of St Canices (Rosbercon) and then following its merger with Tullogher chairman of the combined Tullogher-Rosbercon.

My stepdad played this at school in the 70's, before the days of health and safety... And he's got the scars 😂

Love that you cover these topics man. Just found your page today. Subscribed

I'd like you to do one comparing it with Scotish Shinty,Ireland & the western Islands of Scotland share much in Culture & Language !!

Having received many skelps of a hurl, plenty of bruises, plenty of blood (the time before helmets were introduced) I always have a giggle when professional footballers (soccer) writhe on the ground after a slight push.

John Gregson’s 1958 film Rooney was a comedy about an. Irish dustman who played Hurling in his spare time and I remember the Hurling being very exciting. I watched it as a child on English tv.

The guy who’s name I use for my KZfaq account, along with the profile picture is that of Christy Ring, arguably the greatest hurler of all time. Played for Cork between roughly 1940 and 1960. A hurling icon

Thanks for this post, Steve. In the Outlander series, after a boar hunt, the hunters return to find a vicious game of Shinty (Scottish version of Hurling) going on. Jamie and his uncle joined in and ended up trying to kill each other in the game.

I used to watch this on channel 4, great game.

My nephew plays in the Washington DC area. His team goes to the Gaelic games in the US. I saw him play a couple of years ago when the games were held in Canton, Massachusetts. Spectating really needs grandstands to get a bit higher to see the action on field. Hard game, you have to be in shape. Funny thing. The guys directing traffic to the parking areas were Irish-Irish, not Irish-Americans. Took me aback for a couple of seconds. Looks to be a better game than "Soccer".

I am from the UK and this is the first time I have learned anything about this sport. It looks like it would be a lot more fun than football while being a lot less violent than rugby. I had always thought hurling was another name for what the Scottish did with hammers or logs.

Yes, the hurley stick's face is flat and it takes a lot of practice to become adept at moving the ball around at speed. I have never been more bruised than my days playing hurling.

Stick is a Hurl. (though many say hurley or hurling stick) The hurl is basically flat but actually more likely to be rounded the wrong way to what you are thinking. The ball is a sliotar and is said fast so the o basically disappears ( slit-ar) Coo-Cull-ann (and not an american long "a" sound ann) and the legend is that the ball flew stright into the dogs throat.. (Making me think he was probably playing with the dog and the dog choked on his ball..) Why outlaw the local game.. Same reason that later the English tthen after the act of union, British outlawed the religion, the language and so on. They were trying to replace our culture with their own. IRB is before the IRA and even the IRA was a fractured coalition of groups rather than 1 single organisation. IRA were freedom fighters.. untill enough bad stuff happened on both sides and they started targeting civilian targets. Cam-oh-gie. Of all the video's, why do reacters not pick someone who is from the area being talked about that know how to pronounce the different terms. There is a big GAA presence in the US and Austrailia FYI. Any athlete competing in the GAA must be Amature.. as in un-paid other than expenses covered. The skill is V high and Ireland has lost many great football (Gaelic) players to Aussie rules because of it. The GAA is a V corrupt organisation(IMO). You find the top of it is VERY not connected to the bottom. It reminds me of the church in many ways. There is MASSIVE wealth in the organisation but it's not distributed equally. It lives and breathes on the backs of many thousands of voulenteers in running the local clubs and such and the players that don't get paid for their efforts. Not to mention government money to build their stadium. This video was a good(ish) intro to hurling, covering the history and some of the mythology associated. This was a terrible video for showing how fast paced the game is or comparing various skills to other sports for context. E.G. The ball is kinda like a baseball though a bit smaller. They catch it in their bare hands when it's travelling at speeds of around 100Mph. Helmets are not mandatory and you have people jumping to catch the ball in their hand or knock it down with their hurl, in the same place at the same time and there could be a group of 4 - 6 competing for the ball. UNESCO has it listed as not only the fastest field game in the world but also the oldest.

Shinty is the Scottish version of hurling and they do play between themselves. Hurling is a skilled sport - not too bad nowadays with mouth guards, helmets and gloves but back in the day you could easily get a black eye or more serious injuries from the swinging of the hurleys.

'Running field stick and ball' games are known the world over, many variations. Shinty in Britain is sometimes considered a subset of Hockey, but the Scots correctly maintain it's native to Scotland, while hockey variations seem to have derived from Hurley, Shinty and others arriving at Hockey, then played on ice. The big variation is if the game is played around the edge of a space, with corners or bases, or across the space, such as baseball, cricket etc, v lacrosse, etc. If we drop the sticks we arrive at netball, basketball, korfball, and many others. Hurley is specific, but it's on the spectrum. The many variations of 'running field ball' (no stick) games is also enormous, usually with a split about how or if the ball is handled or carried.

Take a look at Shinty, it's a Scottish stick and ball game. There's usually a game played each year between the Scottish and Irish champions. Pretty brutal. Aussie rules football appears to owe part of it's origin to Gaelic football despite desperate attempts to say it was an Aboriginal game. I will say as an ex British soldier with Irish and Scottish roots who served in Northern Ireland for a while leave "The Troubles" alone, it's way too divisive a topic.

OUR COUNTRIES CALLED ERIN THE ENGLISH CALL IT IRELAND, ITS CALLED ERIN AFTER OUR GODDESS ERIU💪👸👍

Yes, the IRB was the forerunner of the Official IRA, which then splintered into the IRA.

Before the hemets it used to be like a cross between Hockey & Murder....Some of the worst head injuries youre ever going to see,like imagine when its a cold winters day & someone gets smashed with the Hurling stick & it opens them up from top of their ear to the top of their nose & shatters their eye socket..Well that was a Tuesday in Hurling

There are about 20 hurling clubs in the US.

I'm English and I found this most interesting. My parents had a long retirement on a Scottish island, and there I came across Shinty. Now Highlanders and Islanders are warriors, and Shinty looks terrifying to me. It's played with a crooked stick called a 'caman', and shinty is called 'camanachd' in Scottish Gaelic. 'A possible equivalent further south is Bandy, which I believe is still played in South Wales. There is a stained-glass panel in Gloucester Cathedaral ( from the 14th century). A player has a curved stick and a ball. Anybody got information about these?

5:38 just wanted to the opportuniy to mention the 2023 shinty-hurling international is next saturday.

If you record on film and it’s well preserved the detail is incredible, usually when you’re watching old film it’s damage to the film that makes it look bad primarily. I’ve seen film from around the same time look even better than that

In the early 20th century in Ireland... It was a revival of all things Irish culture.. the languge, sport, music etc alongside the big push for Irish freedom from Britain.. Many Americans will have seen the film Michael Collins which portrayed the political and military events of that time..

Interesting video I have not played hurling but will have to try the sport if I get the chance. A sport played in England is called Crown Green Bowling. You might have heard of Bowling or Flat Green Bowling (2003 film Blackball) but the rules for Crown Green Bowling is slightly different.

Comogie player here this is. The best sport ever

There's no dip in a Hurly but it's easy to balance the ball on it. I had a hurly as a kid with the nose broken off, basically it was a big stick!!, and i could still run at full(ish) speed with the ball balanced on it. 7:16 It's pronounced koo kullin 14:30 Camogie is pronounced with a hard G, he almost had it

1:00 Hurling is not only played in Ireland, it's starting to grow across the world. There is actually a GAA world games tournament l for the world to play in except ireland. 3:47 the hurley is flat, and at incurl part axe shape, its sharps in. 5:07 centuries 😂 its over 3000 years old, the ancient warriors use to play it, the train for battle. The samein the 1900's when the freedom fighters practiced for guns, they put the axe head in the armpit for the stock of the gun, and the tail of the hurl at the scope of the gun. 7:17 i dunno how he got that name either because that not his name, its not how its said whatsoever.

Cu Chullann was a pre-Christian, Iron Age Warrior/Hero. If you want to get an idea of what 'knockdown' or 'hurling' was like in ancient, pre-Christian times, just have a look at 'The Last of the Mohicans' movie where Daniel Day Lewis ('Hawkeye') and the Mohicans would prefer to play a wild version of 'Lacrosse' than volunteer to fight for the English in their war with the French in Canada. Exciting & exhilarating! Ice Hockey is said to be based on Hurling. BTW, the Normans & English would have banned the game in Ireland as it was a good way to practice Martial Arts Skills without traditional weapons.

I knew nothing about it either. I had heard "hurling" before, but I thought it was that ice bowls thing😂😂

Would love to hear your reaction Steve to Irish traditional brush dance, particularly at an Irish wedding

There's no dip in the hurley.

The hurl doesn't have a dip, but the ball (sliotair) has ridges on it.

Scotland has a similar game Called Shinty, Each year there’s an exhibition game where Scotland play Shinty rules against Irish national Hurling team, for the Camanachd GAA cup, I don’t know much of the rules of either game, But it good viewing,

The best Hurling video is ""Hurling-the fastest game on grass" over on Eamons channel.

I'm wondering if the woof mentioned was an Irish Wolf Hound ... they are massive gorgeous big animals.

Multiple people can guard the net. They can do the same in “soccer”. Any player can stand on the goal line in soccer, but only goalkeeper can use hands.

I love going to 'Cruck' Park during the championship 😊

I realise this video was first seen 7 months ago. But I give all credit to the guys for their genuine interest. The pronouncing of words etc are off.. BUT folks need to remember that Words are pretty much pronounced by how they pronounce the english alphabeth. Like in the Irish Alphabeth have 18 letters. So many words will be pronounced wrong without someone setting them on that right path.

Hurling played on ice in Canada was called ice hurley the ball in hockey is called the puc ,when you strike the sliothar in hurling you say puc the Sliothar ,look at hurley sticks from 150 years ago ,exactly the same as ice hockey sticks

It is not difficult to remaster old b/w film and make it look like new.

No there is no dip in it it is completley flat. And hurling is also played in other countries such as australia,england,cambodia and more

The shot you were looking at was a penalty shot sol the goalie with several other players was in front of the net

the Norman "Statutes of Kilkenny" in the 13th century banned the game of "horlings" because of the high number of injuries and fatalities.

Hurling is almost 3 thousand year old 😊

Best sports in the wolrd

4:45 he's taking a free.So they are aloud to gaurd the net

5:00 That's a penalty shot. You have three players on the goal line in this case.

There's a team in new York that travels to Ireland to play in the all ireland etc

Hurling is amazing. I live in a village on the West Coast of Ireland that is home to 3 of the top players in the country. If you ever visit the West Coast, let me know and I will take you to a game and try to introduce you to some of the players. I regularly see children as young as 4 in my village, in the local club strips practicing hurling. Also, all players are amateurs!

I play for the USGAA

The IRB came before the IRA. John Philip Holland from Liscannor invented the submarine, his first attempts were for the fenian brotherhood in the US, the IRBs American counterparts. They wanted to use it to attack british navy ships

Go on the cats, up Kilkenny

There is an American team, us soldiers heading home from iraq stopped off at Shannon Airport and it was on the tv, can't remember where abouts, the fights are better😂😂

Gaelic Football would be a bigger sport than Hurling, as Hurling is played in particular areas of the country at the top level (due to the historic fact mentioned about the sport being sustained by bigger aristocratic estates in the past). So Hurling tends to be played in counties and areas that had much better land. Gaelic Football, which has similarities, is played almost everywhere across the Island. But even in places where Hurling isn't the dominant sport, it is highly respected, and still played, just not at the high levels that it would be in 'Hurling counties'. For example in Kilkenny in the southeast of the country, hurling is almost a religion, and babies are born holding hurleys in their hands, but in the historically poorer county of Donegal in the Northwest, where Gaelic football is the main sport, I remember one of my friends made his schools Hurling team purely on the basis that he owned a hurley. As far as international play, the GAA has clubs amongst the Irish diaspora right around the world, and there are actually many clubs for example in the USA, with obviously places like New York and Chicago having a bigger presence, and actually having fairly large field and facilities in those cities. In fact in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics in the US, both Hurling and Gaelic Football were demonstration sports, with some clubs from Chicago winning the competitions. You should check out a video of actual game play. The guy you watched had a pretty good breakdown of the sport, with a few mispronciations, but minor ones in my opinion. But to really appreciate the magic of the sport, you need to see the pace and skill of the sport in full action. You could also check out Gaelic Football. BTW.... Its a totally amateur sport, but its played to a professional standard. Croke Park, the national stadium of the GAA, holds approximately 85,000 people and is the 4th largest stadium in Europe, and getting a ticket to major matches, especially the final of the summer Championship is incredibly difficult.

Tá a fhuaimniú uafásach! 😂

Hurling has the skills of hockey,lacrosse and baseball.

There are shinty leagues in Scotland! 😀😀

Awesome tutorial video. Aside from the narrator butchering the absolute hell out of all Gaelic words. ( understandably ) 😂

Every village in Ireland has a Gaa grounds and play either gaelic football or hurling.. or both.. In Ireland gaelic football is just called football while what's called football in many other countries in Ireland is only called soccer..

3:09 "A bit different from soccer, or what you guys would call football..." Actually, we tend to call it soccer as well. Like you guys and the Aussies we have our own sport called football. ("Gaelic football' is the full term, the guy mentions it near the start of the video)

Hurling dates back about 3000 years so all those other sports have taken from Hurling not the other way around

It's not professional , completly amateur, most have odinary jobs and do all the training at night the biggest competition is the All Ireland Championship, where the 32 counites 26 that make the Republic and the 6 that make up Northern Ireland battle it out . The final is held in Croke Park in Dublin an 80,000 seater satium every year.

You need to check out Scotland's shinty.

There is Hurling and Gaelic Football in the USA

Hurling is indeed played the world over wherever the Irish have settled, but is mainly confined to that community. You might actually be surprised that there could be a hurling club and league quite near you wherever you live in the United States. Hurling is hugely popular throughout Ireland, but is only really played at the most elite level in counties to the south of Dublin: in Kilkenny, Tipperary, Limerick, Galway, Cork, Laois etc, though it is also played at a high level of skill and popularity in the counties of Down and especially Antrim in the North of Ireland. Hurling is also played in many other counties, but at a lower level than the more elite counties named above. It should be understood that wherever and whenever hurling is played it is an amateur sport played by amateurs even at the most elite levels. Nobody gets paid, nobody gets transferred from one team to another. Wherever you are born that is where you play in local hurling clubs, with the dream of representing your own county at the national championships. Despite being amateur sportsmen and women, the elite players of hurling and camogie play to a professional standard, utterly dedicated to their sport and the success of their own club team and county. And being amateurs they risk serious injury despite having to go to work the next day. The GAA as an amateur body is one of the greatest sporting organisations in the world, and its headquarters stadium Croke Park is maybe the fifth biggest stadium in Europe, with a capacity of more than 82,000 seats which are all filled for the great games of the All Ireland championships of Gaelic Football and hurling. This gives a clear impression of the wide popularity of hurling and gaelic football throughout the island of Ireland. I would certainly recommend that you look next at a video showing how the game of hurling is played,, its rules and the skills on display at the most elite levels. Having seen that you will clearly see how this is easily one of the fastest field games that exists today. As for hurling showing elements of other sports it would perhaps be more apt to say that those sports show elements of hurling. No other sport can boast a history going back to ancient times, so it is just silly to say that hurling copies them in any respect.

Amateur sport played on county basis Iconic Irish identity. Eventually after county completion ends with an All Ireland Final with 80000 plus spectators at Croagh Park home of the GAA/ .

The hurley is flat on both sides. It is definitely a skills to be able to bounce or scoop when running.

Hurling, as opposed to Curling. Need good eyesight to play this lol

Hi Steve no comment on this one told off before for poking my nose in Irish affairs when I am from south of England however looks to dangerous for me to play.

The I.R.B. (Irish Republican Brotherhood) was the pre-cursor to the I.R.A. After the 1916 Rising Michael Collins embarked on a complete re-structuring of the I.R.B and it was then re-named the Irish Republican Army.

In Ireland we actually call Association Football as soccer, and call Gaelic Football as football. Feel free to use the word soccer in the context of Ireland.

I swear the lad In the video being reacted to can’t renounce a single word correctly, I’m actually thinking he’s taking the piss at this point

The Hurley is flat no dip

As an Irishman the pronunciations are absolutely painful. No offense to yer man but could you not have found a video done by an Irish person. As for that version of the story of Cu Chulainn... Im not saying it's wrong but it's nowhere close to any version I've seen or read.

GAA is irish sport and the only country that plays something similar is OZ and they call it 'Aussie rules'

Steve have a look at Hurling the fastest game on grass.

Couple of things to add, if not said already. The Normans outlawed the game to repress Irish culture. Later, he said the upper classes only played it. Slightly inaccurate. It was always a sport of the ordinary people but in the general Munster area, the upper classes were patrons of the sport i.e. the sponsored games between local teams

Scottish shinty is not really that similar to hurling,it has a common root to hurling which is why they maintain the link between the two sports.Shinty is basically rough field hockey and helmets are still not compulsory.Hurling is a major sport in ireland whereas shinty isn't that popular in scotland its confined to the highlands where it is the no1 sport but the highlands are very sparsely populated and so nationally the sport wouldn't have the same impact.Its a good game but not sure its worth reacting to unless you combine it with a video on the highland games.

IRB much earlier - before independence

Sooo many mispronunciations!!!! Sliotar - Slitter; Culainn/Cúculainn - Cullen/CooCullen, Camogie- hard G, not soft; Gaelic - Gaylick... possibly some others 😂