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Why is the GAA known as the GAA and not the CLG?

  • 05-02-2012 02:41AM
    #1
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    A bit tangential to the usual stuff you'd get on this board, I presume, but I was just wondering. Lots of bodies in Ireland (CIE, RTE, Bord Na Mona, Coillte) are known by their Irish name. Given the GAA was established on the basis of pretty strong nationalism, it doesn't seem to make sense that it's known as the GAA and not CLG. Does anyone have any idea why?

    (Sorry, mods, if this isn't the most appropriate forum. Maybe history and heritage would be better?)


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  • #2
    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,247 ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that originally Michael Cusack called the GAA the "Gaelic Athletic Association for the Preservation and Cultivation of National Pastimes", with athletics being a core of the association - then a number of years later, when the administrative power from cycling and athletics was given to a separate body, the name Gaelic Athletic Association stayed.

    Maybe it stayed in English so that the English themselves could see what it was - afaik, the organisation pre-dates any of the organisations that are called by their Irish name.

    http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/History_of_the_Gaelic_Athletic_Association_GAA


  • #3
    themandan6611
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    are you dudes on drugs ? please tell me you are :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #4
    kmart6
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    themandan6611 wrote: »
    are you dudes on drugs ? please tell me you are :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:
    Well it's Saturday night...everyone knows that means Coke&Hookers for the Mods!


  • #5
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    andrew wrote: »
    A bit tangential to the usual stuff you'd get on this board, I presume, but I was just wondering. Lots of bodies in Ireland (CIE, RTE, Bord Na Mona, Coillte) are known by their Irish name. Given the GAA was established on the basis of pretty strong nationalism, it doesn't seem to make sense that it's known as the GAA and not CLG. Does anyone have any idea why?

    (Sorry, mods, if this isn't the most appropriate forum. Maybe history and heritage would be better?)
    This may be ignorant or noobish, but what the fvck is CLG?

    Never heard of it in my life.


  • #6
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,813 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Optimalprimerib wrote: »
    This may be ignorant or noobish, but what the fvck is CLG?

    Never heard of it in my life.

    cumann luthchleas gael


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