Hurling! The Great Irish Sport Rooted in Legend 

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

Great Video man. Good job promoting the game and culture

Great video

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

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.

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

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

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

30 minute halves usually. Only 35 in certain situations

Actually for a American you got it pretty spot on

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

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".

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

Is that the same cuculann in Angela's Ashes?

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

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

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

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👍

Wow, it's Baseball except the Offence gets the ball instead of the defense.

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

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.

Interesting that only Ivy League schools played lacrosse initially!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The way you pronounce many Irish words hurts to hear