The 3,000-Year-Old Irish Sport of Hurling: The Fastest Field Game in the World!

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The 3,000-Year-Old Irish Sport of Hurling: The Fastest Field Game in the World!

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Davy Holden

Күн бұрын

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@karenv8351 Ай бұрын

Attended an under 17s game in Kilkenny in April. It was fantastic, family and community fun, just brilliant. Then I found a hurley artisan and he gave me a tour of his workshop and then we had tea in his kitchen. Lovely man, Willy Bulfin.

@davidbrennan3613 Ай бұрын

Next time you are there visit ramie Dowling hurler makers his sons, make fantastic hurl's

@stefang6213 Ай бұрын

@@davidbrennan3613 the ⭐

@EoinDowlingSnr Ай бұрын

Where are they based, im in Westmeath, would love to buy one for the son's.@davidbrennan3613

@PatrickAhern-qb6xb Ай бұрын

Hurling being outlawed remember hearing a piece of old family history by when my great-grandfather being sentenced in old cork goal for being in possession of a huring stick as a young teenager

@PatrickAhern-qb6xb Ай бұрын

1863 he was born died 1938 so the incident happened before the gaa was founded

@brendanmaguire4134 Ай бұрын

Some unionists were wanting the same law brought back in 2015/ 16 up here in the British occupied north ✌🇮🇪

@PatrickAhern-qb6xb Ай бұрын

@@brendanmaguire4134some would like to see the country go back into those dark days thank god were moving forward everyone is intilted to their heritage be British or Irish despite what backward people might think

@Liam.Ralph.1971 Ай бұрын

We have to keep at all costs our heritage and history 💚🤍🧡@@brendanmaguire4134

@XDWX Ай бұрын

Now I know the meaning behind the words "others take delight in the hurling and the bowlin" from the song Whiskey in the Jar.

@tq5523 Ай бұрын

Ireland has a unique culture that should be protected at all cost, wonderful work Thanks.

@paddyo3841 Ай бұрын

Praying Ireland revives its glorious cultural heritage

@Jen999 2 ай бұрын

We learned about this sport when we lived in Canada.. looking forward to this one💜💙☘️

@shawnhawley8569 Ай бұрын

We were introduced to hurling (and Gaelic Football) on our whirlwind trip to Ireland last month (we'll definitely be back soonish...beautiful people and country). Now I get to really learn about it...😊

@k8d642 Ай бұрын

I played Camogie (women's hurling) for about 7 years in the US with DC Gaels. Also played pickup games, both hurling and football, with DCISL.

@patrickmclaren4360 Ай бұрын

My parents talked about playing this as kids in mid - Michigan in the 1920s

@DavidDArcy1975 Ай бұрын

i miss playing, i used to love playing when my knees didn't hate me 😂 Respect & Peace ☘

@McConnachy Ай бұрын

Hurling is related to the Scottish game, Cammanachd, or Shinty. Shinty is related to Golf, and the only international game Hurling has (as far as I’m aware (I’m open for correction)) is the Irish v Scottish Glenmorangie cup, played over two games, over two years.

@blackberrythorns Ай бұрын

when the scottish and irish immigrants in canada saw the first nations playing lacrosse i'm sure they could immediately identify. lacrosse is the oldest sport in north america and the first national sport of canada, hockey being the second. hockey began in nova scotia and was formalized into the modern game in montreal like lacrosse had been previously. check out lacrosse, both field and box, if you haven't before and you'll see the similarities with hurling and shinty.

@user-bn9kr6nz5h Ай бұрын

The similarity to lacrosse occurred to me as well.

@ClannCholmain Ай бұрын

There’s a saying I heard in Limerick, you don’t have to be three quarters mad to play hurling, but it helps.

@Jen999 Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this one Davy.. these videos of the past live again in your hands.. Sad to hear that hurling is dying out in Irish schools.. 😭💔wish there was a way to change that.. Saw a comment about comparing this with field jockey in Canada .. there is no comparison.. Yes we played field hockey in Canada.. but there was a coach who knew hurling and taught some lads who were interested.. he did this on his own time because it was banned in school.. wanted them to know history of the game.. Thank you for this one Davy.. as always excellent work on a topic many know not much about💜💙☘️

@stevendenny7260 Ай бұрын

The new GGA President Jarlath Burns, in his Inauguration Speech, stated that the promotion of Hurling will be no. 1 on his presidential agenda. So this focus will be shifted to widening the playing presence and numbers of players.

@cuhulainsblood Ай бұрын

I still play hurling just clocked 50.

@johnholcomn8560 Ай бұрын

Well done.

@teddyshepherd2854 Ай бұрын

Back in the day I was stood on the Hill to experience my one and only all Ireland match. Kilkenny v Offlay 1998

@wjf0ne Ай бұрын

I had a wonderful conversation with a solicitor who was heavily involved in GAA sports as I was with football (soccer). We both bemoaned the lack of young talent following through beyond their mid teens. We all know the answer, as most of us suffered the same problems ourselves.

@liamoneill5098 Ай бұрын

Christy Ring best in 3000 years. Corcaigh abu!

@johnjoemcgonagle3377 Ай бұрын

Less medals than King Henry Shefflin, keep tryin 😅😅😅

@Turrf17 Ай бұрын

I bet you if Christy ring was a Kilkenny man, he would’ve have won many many more

@johnjoemcgonagle3377 Ай бұрын

He was good. But as he said their will be better hurlers to come Watch out for Limerick this Sunday boooooooi 😅

@liamoneill5098 Ай бұрын

@@Turrf17 thats a low blow boy

@johnlawler1626 Ай бұрын

Love it when he calls them foreign games ,reminds me of my youth 👍

@peadarocoileain902 Ай бұрын

@@Denis.Collinsno they are not. Cork and Limerick will bring 80,000 people to Croke Park on SUNDAY Week. The two main Soccer teams in the counties concerned would not attract a third of that.

@cuhulainsblood Ай бұрын

@@peadarocoileain902 hoping I can a ticket for that if I’m lucky.

@martinoconnor4300 Ай бұрын

Very interesting information davy

@grahamr-oj3wf Ай бұрын

I played til I was 16 u av to be a certain type to be able for hurling 💯🇮🇪

@jojokeavy2835 Ай бұрын

Fair Play, to you Davy 🥎⚪️🟠👍

@BrendanMacNeillPhotography Ай бұрын

Played it as a young teen in the late 60's early 70's in south Dublin. My interest declined as I did't see it, and the GAA, as very dynamic and modern, and I moved away from playing sport in general. Stupid of me I know.

@patrickglennon7058 Ай бұрын

Similar, my last game was at 22😢

@jaymooney1285 Ай бұрын

I played it but very low level. I was better in our ball, but was one of me best memories.. seeing a field, and me and me brother Kevin went and played ball. Mum and paddy made us bacon and eggs.

@jaymooney1285 Ай бұрын

Yeah we was in a caravan, it’s hard to explain the happiness

@jaymooney1285 Ай бұрын

I bit a traveller sadly, but I respect them lads as I was taught to do from me ancestry

@jaymooney1285 Ай бұрын

In my heart me mum and Nan is the ones I’d die for, you wouldn’t want die. Trust me!!!

@deniseodonovan2369 Ай бұрын

I love playing hurling

@mikephalen3162 2 ай бұрын

Photo sure looks like a Kilkenny team.

@davyholden Ай бұрын

It surely is

@eoindee7007 Ай бұрын

@@davyholdenthe player kneeling in the front row extreme right is John Maher of Freshford County Kilkenny. He was married to my Auntie Carrie and after her passing, to her sister, Auntie Kay. Great people all. I think that the photo here is from the 1957 final, which Kilkenny won.

@davyholden Ай бұрын

@@eoindee7007the fella on his left is my granduncle, Tom Walsh.

@eoindee7007 Ай бұрын

@@davyholdenthanks Davy, I have a feeling that Eddie Kehir might be in that photo as well but I'm not entirely certain. Great channel by the way, well done lad 👍

@peadarocoileain902 Ай бұрын

EDDIE Keher was not on the 57 team. He first came on in 59.@@eoindee7007

@jamesrowe3606 Ай бұрын

Hurling was once described to me as being a cross between hockey and murder.

@phillipnoone8044 Ай бұрын

Great video ---- thanks!

@simongee8928 Ай бұрын

Yet another first we can be proud of - ! 😊

@josemama428 Ай бұрын

Make Irish babies 2024 👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻

@MarkSmithbasic-ei3ue Ай бұрын

Preserve the Irish. IFTI

@susanb4816 Ай бұрын

Looks like what we call field hockey in canada

@SmcdMcd-d2k Ай бұрын

It’s nothing like field hockey. At all.. its about twice the length and width and you actually have to hit the ball over half that distance high into the air at pin point accuracy. Plus more differences. It’s nothing like it

@Joseph13163 Ай бұрын

Completely different much of the footage you see here is from earlier times when the game was more ground based,but now its very different a lot more handling and aerial play.The rules are much the same but the sticks were more suited to ground play back then.

@SmcdMcd-d2k Ай бұрын

Yes that person made a good observation. The game is not the same as hundreds of years ago. Just look up hurling currently

@grahamr-oj3wf Ай бұрын

No nothing like hockey 🏒 hurling is in my DNA replication der none 🇮🇪💯