Why did the gga ban foreign dancing
Cos the macarena and Mambo no.5 are shite
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Anybody got info on the fascist games the gga organised in the 1930s?think it was the tailteann games
The Morris dancing brit with a pop
Many amateur sports had bans on professionals coming back.
The simple fact is that the majority motivation for those clubs was self improvement.
The clubs made little to no effort to spread rugby league. They just wanted the players.
How many countries are there in the world are there with indigenous games where there was a War of Independence with the indigenous games people largely siding with the victors and the non indigenous games people largely siding with the departing colonial masters?
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I suppose foreign dancing is easier than mail order to find a wife for you?
are you making up shit?
participation numbers for gga sports have always been poor, especially in urban areas
poor enough segway mate
Thank God we ran The Tans, weâd have fuck all bar rugby football but for the bravery of our ancestors.
We still wouldnât have got further than a âWorld Cupâ quarter final all the same.
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I didnât mention rugby. I mentioned state funding for fee paying schools. Do you think itâs right that they get funded even though few can avail of private education?
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The Toffs are actually saving the state money here.
The cunts were still saluting the King at their after match dinners well into the 1930s and then they turn around and wonder why Dev was embarrassed to be associated with them.
You literally couldnât make it up.
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Nonsense as you well know.
There was little difference between the working class association football fan and the working class GGA type.
Making things political was deliberate by the GGA to get ahead.
You can dance around all you like on it. What went on was a disgrace.
Damhsa Gallda, it was known as.
Translates roughly as Gowls Dancing.
Wah wah wah
Some unionists played a different sport.
Ăamon DeValera didnât stop going to rugby games because of rugby people, it was due to the GGA.
Not a disgrace at all. Very much an important part of our nation building and quest for our own distinctive national identity. How much poorer a place culturally would Ireland be if the Gaels had lost that existential quest for survival. How weâd miss that thrum of excitement that courses throw the veins of the nation every summer. Sure thereâll be oddballs who feel excluded from all of this but thatâs life.
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Youâre getting a bit childish now.
So you agree then.
It was right and proper that the GGA used sectarianism, bigotry and other means to promote their games above others. It couldnât stand on its own two feet without that.
Youâre happy enough that all the Protestants left in the 20s and 30s as well I guess.