Hurling! The Great Irish Sport Rooted in Legend

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2 жыл бұрын

What is hurling? What is Hurley?
The most famous of Celtic sports, this Irish game has been played since ancient times, and is alive and well today. The sport has had a fascinating influence on Irish history and culture. Evidence suggests Hurling could have been played as far back as 3,000 years ago. Over the years, a few different variations of the game have been played in different regions. However, no one really knows exactly what the ancient game was like or who played it first. The oldest records actually come from Irish mythology especially the origin story of the greatest Irish hero - Cuchulain.
Erik takes us on a quick tour of this ancient game and how it has helped shape Irish history and identity.
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@patrickodonnell4109 2 жыл бұрын

Another wonderful dissertation on history and culture. Much appreciated!!!!

@KitsGravity 4 ай бұрын

An Indian here. Fascinated by this sport. Never seen anything remotely like it. Wish we would make it popular here. Kids would gobble it up.

@USAKiltsOfficial 4 ай бұрын

I blame the English for saddling you guys with Cricket. ;) Srsly, the sport has fans all over. It just takes some passionate friends to get something started. Not sure where you're from (ie. region/territory) , but I have always wondered if anyone in the USA has brought over schools for Kalaripayattu.

@KitsGravity 4 ай бұрын

@@USAKiltsOfficial We love cricket. It's the most beautiful sport according to us. It's the perfect game for individual battles as well as team co-ordination. I love when one bowler has been bowling a batsman for 3 hours a day. They get to know each other intimately. They get in each other's heads trying to outmanoeuvre the opponent.

@TenkoHze Жыл бұрын

Great video! The game has been our lifeblood, our pride and our spirit of rebellion for hundreds of years and I couldn’t help but smile throughout this video.

@LinkxFan12 Жыл бұрын

This sport has been an amazing help to both my health and motivation. We recently just started up a Hurling Club in Columbia, SC and continue to grow!

@gallowglass2630 Жыл бұрын

Fair play to you

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

As hurling junkies, can hardly wait to see how you present this vid. Cheers from SpoCanada

@heibai555 8 ай бұрын

Great Video man. Good job promoting the game and culture

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

Very well done.The national league competition is actually the secondary elite competition and actually i didn't even know the name of the trophy ,the main competition is the all ireland championship Which is split into four tiers of which the Elite is the Liam McCarthy cup .The Liam McCarthy final is played before 82000 except for the last two years obviously where the 2020 was played behind closed doors and last years was limited to 40 000,due to the global health situation. One important aspect you left out and it goes for gaelic football is that although they have the third largest stadium devoted to their use and they are the biggest sports in terms of spectators ,the players are not paid they are students,Doctors ,lawyers,teachers, farmers ,soldiers and labourers .They basically spend all their free time training and which often involves 6hour round trips to training 3 or 4 times a week.The commitment is staggering. Overall it was a very fine effort particularly the rules very concise and clear.Unless your living in ireland its very difficult to understand the grip GAA has on the Irish psyche and hurling in particular fully no more than i could describe the social impact of highschool American Football in texas.

@22grena Жыл бұрын

And now the GAA is actively working with open borders globohomo politicians to destroy the ethnic Irish.

@rosariobaio9239 8 ай бұрын

Great video

@devlinyvonne1 Жыл бұрын

The pronounciation of Cú Chulainn needs a bit of work, its closer to Coo-cull-in although that is an anglicised version. The ch in Irish would have a more guttural sound

@FantasKanal 2 күн бұрын

Want to play, 3 hour drive each direction... guess I'll have to wait if something pops up closer by.

@nikkisalerii89 2 жыл бұрын

Cool ^-^. Also, what isd the music track in the start of the video? I don't see a name or else I wouldn't ask.

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

Now that you guy's did a great hurling vid, how's about doing one on curling. Cheers from SpoCanada.

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

looking forward to this .Scottish shinty is also from the same lineage though it has developed differently its more ground based than hurling and has less social impact football/ soccer would be much more popular. whereas in ireland its a top 4 sport though in my part of the country Gaelic football which is run by the same body the GAA is far more popular

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

Husband plays both GAA football and hurling. Grew up in the State of Michigan and the Province of Ontario, Playing and still plays; ice n roller hockey, lacrosse, rugby, cricket, rounders baseball basketball football futbol, . Still tearing it up, at 66. Cheers from SpoCanada

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

Shinty, GAA football and of course hurling, are the ancestral sports of almost all of the sports that we play, in North America, except Lacrosse, which came from the Aboriginal/1st Nation Peoples. Cheers

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

@@vickymay9222 Thats true particularly hockey..The scots would have brought shinty and the irish hurling but at that time they were identical.Before standardisation anyway Only when the games became standardised did they diverge hurling in 1884 and shinty in 1891.Lacrosse has nothing to do with hurling as such,but the origin of the games are similar as both were training for warriors.

@christopheryoung3356 2 жыл бұрын

Shinty, or Camanachd, was traditionally played in the winter months in Ulster and the Scottish Highlands, while Hurling was traditionally played in the summer.

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

Christopher young Shinty comes from winter hurling which has largely died out in ireland and what was now hurling was called summer hurling played in munster and leinster which is the case today.The only winter hurling/ shinty region that took up hurling when it was standardised was antrim the rest of the winter hurling areas took up Gaelic football instead.Its kind of strange antrim hurlers are probably 15 miles of sea from the nearest shinty area,but they are a hundred miles or more from the main hurling area.

@whiskeyvictor5703 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a place in the US to purchase Hurling equipment? The main-stream stores will not likely have anything.

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

Whiskey Victor Don't take this as gospel , but i believe there is somebody who makes hurleys in the US from American Ash,but the bulk would come from ireland .They are over 100 GAA clubs in the US ,New york alone has 31 and boston has 45. Two organisations are responsible for the governance of GAA in the US,both are affiliated to the GAA in ireland,but in america they are two county boards North american GAA and New york ,unless you live in new york the North america GAA website will give you an indication of where the clubs are and from that clubs will be able give you information about equipment .I live in ireland so thats about as much as i can do for you,except for caveat GAA is supposed to promote gaelic games equally but in practice they may focus just on one like gaelic football.Generally they are very welcoming to native born americans.

@whiskeyvictor5703 2 жыл бұрын

@@gallowglass2630 Thanks for the reply. Yesterday, I found a few businesses in the States which make/provide equipment. I bought some camans and sliotars to get started, but the hard part will be finding enough people to play. However, I may have to bend the rules and engineer a kind of game requiring fewer players per side -- a necessary compromise in a remote part of the country (that cultural desolation between the Rockies and Appalachians, inclusive) where the "strange" and "foreign" is regarded with outright suspicion, if not hostility.

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

@@whiskeyvictor5703 Thats par for the course in terms of hurling abroad and gaelic football aswell even in places with large irish communities rules have to be modified except for new york where they have Gaelic park a full size astroturf all weather ground everywhere else they have to make do with smaller fields meany it teams are reduced to 13 or 11,even soccer fields are much smaller than GAA pitches.I live in rural ireland and at times it can be like that here too,they are people here that you know have never been outside the parish by the way they drive.

@MCKevin289 Жыл бұрын

@@gallowglass2630 American hurler here, I got my gear from my club. I just took up the sport and they’ve all been very welcoming to me.

@barryryan14 Жыл бұрын

There are several hurling clubs in the states and New York takes part in the all Ireland, if you can't get on there, you won't get one anywhere.

@donnachadoyle6629 2 жыл бұрын

30 minute halves usually. Only 35 in certain situations

@CinntSaile 7 ай бұрын

The stick (caman) used in the game of Shinty, or Camanachd, was referred to in RTÉ's, "Hurley Maker", programme from the "Hands" series as, "the ancient camàn". The caman/camàn is almost certainly what was referred to, historically, as shepherd's stave. Staves can be seen, in various forms, in mediaeval manuscripts where Nativity scenes are represented. It was used by stock herds to propel stones at straying animals, to keep them in line, or to strike predators such as wolves. It's not difficult to imagine groups of young shepherds gathering and showing off their skills by competing in some rudimentary game involving teams and some type of ball. The old Shinty games were often played between parish boundaries, covering huge areas and played over a period of a whole day by groups of dozens of men. This continued till the 1800s, when district variations were standardised by the Camanachd Association. Before the GAA decided on Leinster Hurling as Ireland's "national" ball and stick game, it was Camanachd which was played, to the exclusion of Hurling, North of a line extending from Dublin to Galway. South of that line Leinster Hurling predominated. The oldest representation of a caman/camàn can be found on a Gallowglass gravestone at Cloncha in Co. Donegal. The man who it commemorates was a Scottish Gael called Manus McCorriston from the island of Iona. He was buried in the late 1300s/early 1400s. The Gallowglasses were Gaelic warriors who fought in Ireland, with their fellow Gaels, against the English. Camanachd is recorded as having been played on a frozen loch at a place called Moy, in the Scottish Highlands, in the late 1600s. It was also recorded as having been played on the frozen St Lawrence River, in the 1800s, by Highland troops stationed in Montreal. It's a fairly safe assumption that Camanachd spawned the game of ice hockey, given hockey's terminology and its traditional home in Nova Scotia, "New Scotland".

@Irish780 Жыл бұрын

Actually for a American you got it pretty spot on

@davidguymon1673 2 жыл бұрын

I do hurling after I've had too much to drink. I'm quite good at it. 😉😀

@devlinyvonne1 Жыл бұрын

Also its Gay-lick not Gal-lick when pronouncing Gaelic

@muttznuttz2972 Жыл бұрын

Gale-ick!....Gale..as in 'storm'. Gay-lick' is the pronunciation from people who have no idea what they're talking about!

@bensy1704 11 ай бұрын

little bit of misinfermation regarding the firbolg they arent the original inhabatants they are one of many invaders including the tuatha dé, their name means men of the bag and its said they got that name after escaping slavery and carring bags of soil to make the stoney earth firtile

@colmcronin7306 Жыл бұрын

To anyone trying to pronounce sliotar: slit-her. Pronounce the H.

@staghornthedruid957 Жыл бұрын

i use the story of Cu Culhain to teach people about the meaning of sacrifice.

@donalbarry8790 2 жыл бұрын

Not a bad effort just the pronunciations letting you down a bit, also league is second tier competition, it's the championship or liam McCarthy that's number 1

@jeriahoconnell5093 9 ай бұрын

Great video, love the history of it , sorry about the but , but your pronunciation of a few words are ( 🤭) like a school report - minor improvements needed , excellent student👍

@ConnbineHarvester Жыл бұрын

Dear Americans, dress how you normally dress if you find yourself in Ireland. Also, calling the sliotar a ball is just fine if you can't say sliotar properly.

@bobbieschke599 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that only Ivy League schools played lacrosse initially!

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

And, many of the elite players, were of Iroquois ancestry. Cheers

@bobbieschke599 2 жыл бұрын

@@vickymay9222 the Iroquois supplied the Canadian preparatory schools with players for indoor or box lacrosse. They were considered 3rd class citizens, but were valued for their skills, each team had a number on board. This was not the occasion for field lacrosse in the U.S. I am part Choctaw and we play the 2 stick game, toli. I was Team Poland's general manager for the Worlds in 2010,as well as, playing and coaching since 1968.......kindess regards, Bob

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbieschke599 thanx Bob. We are of Scottish, Iroquois, Irish, and Black Canadian, on my Grandfather's side. Cheers

@gallowglass2630 2 жыл бұрын

His presentation was very good ,but certain things were not quite correct hurling wouldn't really ever have been played much by the upper classes it was rather remote villages who maintained the tradition like the burren county clare where the GAAs founder grew up.There was an upper class attempt to standardise the game called Hurley however it was more like field hockey and the club would quickly switch to playing field hockey'.In general sense it was the case that organised sport at that time was the preserve of the upper classes even soccer emerged from elite public schools in england and eventually made its way down the social ladder .

@vickymay9222 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbieschke599 hey Bob. Cool dissertation. We play an indoor version of toli, w/fiddlestix, and outdoor and box lacrosse version, with 2 attack/midfield stix, at a local rink, when the ice is up[on hockey skates], as well as down,[shoes and roller hockey skates]. Cheers to for keeping Toli alive. After all, lacrosse, like; hurling, curling, rugby, GAA football, futbol, basketball, cricket, rounders and so many other great sports require the mastery of ambidexterity. Cheers.

@cacamilis8477 4 ай бұрын

Great video, however I think that as someone who's very interested in Celtic traditions, I think you could have done a little bit of research into pronouncing Irish words. Doesn't have to be perfect, I understand it's a foreign language to you, but many words were completely wrong. I have to say that some words were pretty good, though.

@USAKiltsOfficial 4 ай бұрын

Ah...you hit us in a soft squishy spot, sir. We actually try very hard to get Gaelic right and have one or two speakers we reach out to when we can. But it is a bit of a struggle sometimes. Please bear with us as we learn.

@gallowglass2630 Ай бұрын

@@USAKiltsOfficial That may be where you are going wrong as gaelic is a language group rather than one language you need to get irish speakers for irish and scots gaelic speakers for scottish gaelic words.For example the way he pronounces gaelic is correct for scotland but not ireland

@owenvenes 25 күн бұрын

Nice video, and we'll researched. Unfortunately pretty much every Irish word or name is mispronounced in the video. I don't understand why Americans never bother to pronounce our language correctly.

@keepitsimplejon5450 10 ай бұрын

Goalkeepers are not safe from tackling. They 100% CAN be tackled.

@djbillybopdjbillybop2817 Жыл бұрын

Great Video The Girls version is Camogie, pronunciation Kuh- mow- gee also Cú Chulainn is Coo-cull-in he would kick Thor Ares. ·

@ItsmeeSaoirse Жыл бұрын

Well told but pronunciations need a lot of work tbh.. Gaelic for instance is pronounced Gay - Lick.. No childish comments please people. Camogie is pronounced Cam-o-g-ee

@gallowglass2630 Жыл бұрын

The viewers of this channel are generally fairly mature ,you are unlikely to encounter any silly comments here

@muttznuttz2972 Жыл бұрын

No it's not! Gale-ick! Your rubbish interpretation is why we have the stupid ass comments that we do....

@Heather-pq4hv Жыл бұрын

The way you pronounce many Irish words hurts to hear

@aesem298 7 ай бұрын

I don’t want to sound like that guy but it annoys me when people get the pronunciation wrong, it’s not a huge deal usually but these guys seem to have some sort of obsession with everything Celtic and are trying to be informative