This day 115 years ago – 17 July 1904 – camogie was played in public for the first time at a Féis in Navan, Co. Meath.
The match was between Craobh an Chéitinnigh and Cúchulainns.
A stick-and-ball game, camogie is almost identical to hurling, but played by women instead of men. pic.twitter.com/R5dQyHmkVq
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 17, 2019
Coached by two lads.
FIGHT!
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Is that a young Shane Ross at the back (left) claiming credit for this amazing achievement, and did he later go back to the Dail where he first introduced his Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 1904?
Camogie is a sport more graceful and decorous in outcome than boxing.
In your opinion.
FTFY
Hatchet women!
and yet camogie is still independent of the GAA.
Yep, rounders is the 4th sport isn’t it?
Hurling
Football
Handball
Rounders
Ladies Football
Camogie is a separate organisation
so is Ladies Football, governed by the LGFA
Is it wrong to feel a twinge if excitement looking at that photo.. I can almost feel the repeated slap of the bas against the back of my thighs, ably administered by those mighty noble gaels in their long dresses..
Settle down, Setanta.
“A stick-and-ball game, camogie is almost identical to hurling, but played by women instead of men.”
Not played by Transgender then?
Have you seen the fella front row centre..?
That’s Mary Paul Ringer, went on to win the U18 Hornpipe and Slip Jig Irish Dance medals in the same Feis.