1905 in Ireland - 1905 in Gaelic Games, Clonakenny Gaa, Valentia Young Islanders, Mick Ahern, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1905 (Paperback)

Chapters: 1905 in Gaelic Games, Clonakenny Gaa, Valentia Young Islanders, Mick Ahern, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1905, Sligo Senior Hurling Championship, Castleblayney Faughs, Bill Dillon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clonakenny GAA - The history of Clonakenny G.A.A. dates back to about 1905 when Paddy Costigan succeeded in getting the use of a field at Gurteen from Jimmy Lloyd for playing on. Fr Crowe who was the Parish Priest at the time and a number of others formed the first club in Clonakenny. Simon Egan was the first Chairman and Jim Sheedy was Secretary. Incidentally, Simon Egan is reported to have made the first hurling ball for the Club. The Club had a senior team and played in the North division. At that time teams were 17 aside. Another feature of the first Clonakenny team was that they wore a green jersey with a white hoop and it much later before they wore the familiar Black and Amber. About 1910 politics interfered in the smooth running of the club and a split developed which lasted a few years. However the failure of Clonakenny to field a team of its own resulted in players being allowed to play for Moneygall and in 1915/16/17 this Moneygall team got to three North finals. Clonakenny players also played with Clonmore in those years. In 1981 it was decided to undertake the purchase off a new playing field both as an investment in the youth of the parish and as a resource for the whole community. For several years Clonakenny teams had trained in "Fr. Kennedys" as it was known it was in fact a parochial field located two fields down from the parochial house in Lismacken. Support for that decision was received from Tom Kirby and Paddy Maher who were Co. Board appointed Development Officers and their advice proved i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14758497