yes,please do
Wikipedia 
Some kind of hurling game developed from the medieval and by the eighteenth century it had taken some recognised shape. However, our knowledge of the game is not very specific. The game was adopted by the plantation owners towards the end of the seventeenth century and they gave it the leadership and protection it required. An example is the Cosby family in Co. Laois.
A Hurling Landlord
The Cosbys were an Elizabethan family that settled in Stradbally, Co. Laois in 1563. The first of the line was notorious for his cruelty to the Irish. A descendant of his was Dudley Cosby, who died in 1729. His son, Pole, wrote thus about him in his autobiography: ‘He danced on the ropes as well as any rope dancer that ever was. He was a fine tennis and five player, a most extraordinary fine hurler and very fond of all those things, and practised them very much when he was young and able.’
Dudley Cosby and Nicholas Purcell of Loughmore would have been contemporaries, and the distance between Stradbally and Templemore is not very great. It is conceivable that they had a contest between their estate teams, with a hefty wager on the winner!
I’ll be on my laptop for the day tomorrow, mate. I’ll throw them up.
What can’t be denied is that fisty ball is a garrison game. 100% stems from the Brits.
yes,i agree
And we can we also agree that Hurling is uniquely Irish?
if by Oirish you mean British then yes
Donegal Celtic and Cliftonville are the biggest teams in Antrim.
No. The origins of the game predates the arrival of Saxons and Normans to Britain, let alone over here. The game was first recorded in the 8th century but oral accounts of it go back another 1,200 years.
It’s a part of our very fabric.
Any of the hurling clubs in the Glens would shit on them for facilities .
it came from shinty so its a scotch game
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A Black Watch game.
They were always very proud of being the home of hurling in Killimor.
Metropolitans v Killimor
One of the few places in the country where the game of hurling had survived was Killimor in south Galway. The earliest set of hurling rules to have been adopted was at a meeting of the Killimor club in February 1885, even though there is a good argument that they were in existence since 1869. When Killimor heard of the revival of hurling by Cusack’s Metropolitan Club, they issued a challenge to play them. A cup was put up by the people of the town and the Fair Green in Ballinasloe was chosen as the venue.
An advertisement in the Western Star screamed: ‘Hurling! Hurling! Revival of the National Game’.
The match was arranged for Easter Monday, April 13, 1884. The Midland Railway issued return tickets to the Metropolitan players and their friends to Ballinasloe at single fares, which was revolutionary at the time.
Before the game started the Killimor captain, F. W. Lynch, and the Metropolitan captain, Michael Cusack, settled the rules of the match. They agreed to play for four half-hours, no tripping or wrestling to be allowed. The winners were to be the team that scored the greater number of goals during the period.
The match wasn’t a great success. A big crowd turned up, which constantly encroached onto the pitch. In spite of the agreed set of rules, the game was a disappointment and it came to a premature end when Killimor scored a goal.
According to the report in the Western Star ‘Mr. Cusack lost all heart in the business, and before the second goal was played off stated that his men were not able for the task, but hinted in the blandest manner possible that his opponent’s play was too rough, which not one but himself evidently could see, even most of his own men wished to play out but to no use. . . . Mr. Cusack could not be induced to go on, evidently thinking that it would look better before the public to draw off than be beaten badly. . … ‘ The Galway men claimed victory and this was honoured by bonfires and lights all the way from Ballinasloe to Killimor.
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Christ… It was the Irish who colonized Scotland and brought the Gaelic language and culture. Stop playing dumb, mate. I know you’re an esteemed historian.
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@ChocolateMice cleaning house here. He’s giving the resident Brits a right run around.
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Killimor is in east Galway.
It’s impossible to explain hurling or indeed any aspect of indigenous Irish culture to west Brits, especially the revisionist historian types. It’s an embarrassment to them, and if they had their way hurling would be banned and kids forced to play cricket, a pint of plain followed by a half one replaced by a glass of claret, and soda bread replaced by spotted dick. They are such a shower of wankers.
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It’s funny how the indigenous people of Connemara have no time for stick hurling Chef. You could hardly call them west Brits. See that’s where your idiotic argument falls down.
The vast majority of Irish people are not interested in stick hurling. That’s a fact.
Hard to play hurling on a rock
I do remember uncles, cousins and their neighbours from Connemara travelling to Croke Park in the 80s to Galway hurling All Ireland Finals.
I travelled up myself to a game from summer holidays in roundstone - the uncle driving, car crash as we exited Galway city pulling in to get a plank to lever the back wing off the back tire and travelling on
The oul lad was from East Galway (@anon7035031) and would have tolerated Connemara men having opinions on hurling but they travelled and enjoyed it.
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What a loss to hurling you must have been.
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