GAA

GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) (1884- ), a national sporting movement established on 1 November 1884 by Michael Cusack, Maurice Davin, John Wyse-Power, J. K. Bracken, and others, with the aim of promoting traditional Irish games such as hurling and Gaelic football. Born in Carron, Co. Clare, Cusack (1847-1906) ran a business college. Underlying the success of the GAA was its connection with Fenianism. The Association created an Irish version of the new-style spectator sports emerging contemporaneously elsewhere in Europe.