GAA 125th Anniversary Celebrations

Looking forward to these shows - should be good

As a major contribution to the GAAs 125th Birthday in 2009, TG4 has launched its major new 10 part television documentary series chronicling the social and cultural history of the Association.

The series, launched by GAA President, Nickey Brennan, at the GAA Museum in Croke Park Dublin, traces the consistent growth and sometimes turbulent story of the Association from the inaugural meeting in Hayes Hotel in Thurles to todays vibrant and self-confident organization with hundreds of thousands of players and members in Ireland and overseas and proud owner of one of Europes best sports stadia.

Drawing extensively on newsreel, film and television archive and informed by insightful contributions from leading historians, journalists, players, administrators and commentators, this is the story of a uniquely Irish entity, a combination of cultural movement, sporting organization and mirror of Irish society for a century and a quarter that has survived and flourished through war, peace, emigration, insecurity, political violence and economic boom.

From the Beara peninsula in West Cork to Casement Park in Belfast, from the sandy playing field on the Aran Islands to the multi-cultural primary school teams of the new Dublin suburbs, the series offers a fresh perspective on the GAA through the ages, reflecting on what it meant not just to public leaders and opinion-formers but to the ordinary playing members and supporters and to its critics also. The series shows the enormous influence of the GAA over wider society and it,s often unthanked role in promoting pride of place, social cohesion and in providing a sporting outlet and facilities in communities, whether affluent or deprived.

Each programme takes a period of 20-25 years places the development of the GAA within the broader social and historical context of the time. Contributors include Dr Diarmaid Ferriter, Michel Muircheartaigh, Mickey Harte, Brendan Fullam, Mick O,Dwyer, Maurice Hayes, Professor Gearid Tuathaigh, Canon Tom Looney, Liam Griffin, Marcus de Brca, Professor John A Murphy, An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD and top GAA officials Nickey Brennan, Uachtarn, Christy Cooney, Uachtarn tofa and Praic Duffy, Ard-Stirthir.

The series will air on TG4 on late Sunday afternoons from mid January (with a repeat showing of each programme on Friday nights). It has been commissioned by TG4 from Nemeton, an independent production company based in Ring in the Waterford Gaeltacht, the channel,s primary provider of sports output. In addition to the TG4 funding, the series has also received support from the BCI Sound & Vision Fund and the European Media Fund and was one of the largest scale television documentary projects produced in Ireland in 2008.

Am looking forward to the year as a whole. A wonderful time to laud an organisation which is the true lifeblood of this country.

[quote=“myboyblue”]Am looking forward to the year as a whole. A wonderful time to laud an organisation which is the true lifeblood of this country.

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Hear hear

[quote=“thedancingbaby”]Looking forward to these shows - should be good

As a major contribution to the GAAs 125th Birthday in 2009, TG4 has launched its major new 10 part television documentary series chronicling the social and cultural history of the Association.

The series, launched by GAA President, Nickey Brennan, at the GAA Museum in Croke Park Dublin, traces the consistent growth and sometimes turbulent story of the Association from the inaugural meeting in Hayes Hotel in Thurles to todays vibrant and self-confident organization with hundreds of thousands of players and members in Ireland and overseas and proud owner of one of Europes best sports stadia.

Drawing extensively on newsreel, film and television archive and informed by insightful contributions from leading historians, journalists, players, administrators and commentators, this is the story of a uniquely Irish entity, a combination of cultural movement, sporting organization and mirror of Irish society for a century and a quarter that has survived and flourished through war, peace, emigration, insecurity, political violence and economic boom.

From the Beara peninsula in West Cork to Casement Park in Belfast, from the sandy playing field on the Aran Islands to the multi-cultural primary school teams of the new Dublin suburbs, the series offers a fresh perspective on the GAA through the ages, reflecting on what it meant not just to public leaders and opinion-formers but to the ordinary playing members and supporters and to its critics also. The series shows the enormous influence of the GAA over wider society and it,s often unthanked role in promoting pride of place, social cohesion and in providing a sporting outlet and facilities in communities, whether affluent or deprived.

Each programme takes a period of 20-25 years places the development of the GAA within the broader social and historical context of the time. Contributors include Dr Diarmaid Ferriter, Michel Muircheartaigh, Mickey Harte, Brendan Fullam, Mick O,Dwyer, Maurice Hayes, Professor Gearid Tuathaigh, Canon Tom Looney, Liam Griffin, Marcus de Brca, Professor John A Murphy, An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD and top GAA officials Nickey Brennan, Uachtarn, Christy Cooney, Uachtarn tofa and Praic Duffy, Ard-Stirthir.

The series will air on TG4 on late Sunday afternoons from mid January (with a repeat showing of each programme on Friday nights). It has been commissioned by TG4 from Nemeton, an independent production company based in Ring in the Waterford Gaeltacht, the channel,s primary provider of sports output. In addition to the TG4 funding, the series has also received support from the BCI Sound & Vision Fund and the European Media Fund and was one of the largest scale television documentary projects produced in Ireland in 2008.[/quote]

not according to our friends in the ESRI:D

NCC is bang on. Hardly a time for the GGA to be patting it self on the back when it is lurching from one fiasco to the next and is completely out of touch with the needs of its ordinary playing members.

Not at all. The organisation as a whole should be very proud of what its acheieved in the past 125 years. To say otherwise is just silly.

Some very ordinary ones out there alright :frowning:

Whupahhhh!

The GAA will spend close to EUR500,000 on a fireworks display before the start of the opening National Football League game between Dublin and Tyrone at Croke Park on January 31.

The glamour tie, which will be played under floodlights (throw-in 7.30pm) and broadcast live on Setanta, will mark the beginning of the GAA’s 125th anniversary celebrations with live music and a fireworks display.

When the two sides also met in the opening game of the 2007 NFL at Croke Park for the official unveiling of the new floodlights, a near capacity crowd of 81,678 was present for the ’switching on’ of the floodlights and a performance by Tuam band The Saw Doctors beforehand.

[quote=“thedancingbaby”]The GAA will spend close to EUR500,000 on a fireworks display before the start of the opening National Football League game between Dublin and Tyrone at Croke Park on January 31.

The glamour tie, which will be played under floodlights (throw-in 7.30pm) and broadcast live on Setanta, will mark the beginning of the GAAs 125th anniversary celebrations with live music and a fireworks display.

When the two sides also met in the opening game of the 2007 NFL at Croke Park for the official unveiling of the new floodlights, a near capacity crowd of 81,678 was present for the switching on of the floodlights and a performance by Tuam band The Saw Doctors beforehand.[/quote]

any idea what the crowd was the following week vs limerick:D

500k would be better off being put into development

[quote=“thedancingbaby”]The GAA will spend close to EUR500,000 on a fireworks display before the start of the opening National Football League game between Dublin and Tyrone at Croke Park on January 31.

The glamour tie, which will be played under floodlights (throw-in 7.30pm) and broadcast live on Setanta, will mark the beginning of the GAAs 125th anniversary celebrations with live music and a fireworks display.

When the two sides also met in the opening game of the 2007 NFL at Croke Park for the official unveiling of the new floodlights, a near capacity crowd of 81,678 was present for the switching on of the floodlights and a performance by Tuam band The Saw Doctors beforehand.[/quote]

If they really are spending 500k on fireworks then it’s fooking disgrace. They should release it to clubs with structured plans in place as a development fund or something. What would be a more fitting way to commerating the 125th anniversary, a fireworks display that’ll be over in 5 mins or dressing rooms for a club that will still be there in 25 years time?

big time- lets not forget a lot of Dubs fans like me & dancing baby are just championship attenders

concur 100% NCC…an awful lot to spend in the current climate

i thought db was a leitrim man?! :confused:

Could they not just get a few of your buddies from Sherrif street to set fire to a few cards outside the ground or something?

[quote=“Mac”]i thought db was a leitrim man?! :confused:

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A Leitrim GAA supporter as opposed to a Leitrim man Mac !!

fingal/dublin/leitrim

born & bred in portmarnock - Leitrim roots

you seem to forget Im from salubrios Malahide

sylvesters are in a fundraising campaign at the moment to build better facilities in bridge field including a hurling wall(??)

why not give them some money

[quote=“north county corncrake”]including a hurling wall(??)

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Did you find out what a hurling wall is yet NCC?