31-681: The Shinty–Hurling International Series is a sports competition played annually between the Ireland national hurling team (selected by the Gaelic Athletic Association ) and Scotland national shinty team (selected by the Camanachd Association ). The series is conducted according to the rules of shinty–hurling , which is a hybrid sport consisting of a mixture of rules from the Scottish sport of shinty and
62-565: A thousand years we should be justified in entering upon a more varied programme." The first games were held in August 1922, with JJ Walsh , Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, as chair and Catherine Gifford Wilson, BA as secretary to the organisation. Commemorative medals were struck for all three games, in gold, silver, silver gilt, and bronze. They depict Tailtiu , the patron deity of the ancient Tailteann Games, with inscription "An Bhainrioghan Tailte" ("Queen Tailte"). The games opened with
93-437: Is also referred to as shinty– camogie . The following is an incomplete table of recent results. This table only refers to matches played since the inception of regular Shinty–Hurling International Series fixtures in 2003. See List of Shinty-Hurling international matches between Ireland and Scotland for table including full list of fixtures. Up to date as of 2024 fixture Note: Date shown in brackets indicates when
124-676: The 1932 election , and public funding was cut. Against a background of the Great Depression and the Anglo-Irish Trade War , the Games cut from two weeks to one; they made a £12 profit. The change of Irish Government left the Tailteann games without government support, and as a result there were very few competitions. The cycling event was won by J.P. Woodcock . The third games was won again by John O'Hanlon who
155-524: The Irish sport of hurling . Matches are played at men's senior, men's under 21 and women's levels, with Scotland having had the most success in recent years, winning the last five senior series. The first known international fixture between a Scottish shinty team and Irish hurling team occurred in 1896, when the London Camanchd and London GAA local clubs met in a friendly. The following year,
186-813: The Irish Chess Union , there were three competitions, the overall competition was won by the reigning Irish Champion Philip Baker , the Major Competition was won by Lord Dunsany , with Aaron Sayers as runner-up. Dublin Chess Club provided its premises in Regent House, Trinity College Dublin as well as equipment for use for the Competitions. The women's golf event was held at Portmarnock. The Men's golf event may have been held at Dollymount. In hurling , teams from England, Wales,
217-728: The Lough Ree Yacht Club , and Motor Yacht Club of Ireland, on 16 August. Races took place in various classes: Race 1. Yachts over 10 tons and under 40 tons. race of 24 miles. 'Mavourneen' F.S.J. Worrell With the 1932 Summer Olympics begin held in Los Angeles, the Tailteann Games was originally scheduled for 1931 to avoid a clash, but postponed to 1932, which meant Olympic athletes from Ireland or abroad could not be present. The Games' main backer, minister J. J. Walsh , lost office when Fianna Fáil took power after
248-886: The Norman invasion of Ireland ; as such it drew inspiration from the Modern Olympics revival of the Ancient Olympics . Croke Park , the Dublin headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , was the venue for the opening ceremony and many of the sports events, which were open to people of Irish birth or ancestry. The Tailteann Games were held shortly after the Summer Olympics, such that athletes participating in Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928 came to compete. Participants coming from England, Scotland, Wales, Canada,
279-617: The Royal Hibernian Academy displayed 1,597 works, more than half entered for competition in 32 categories. The overall "Tailteann Trophy" went to Seán Keating 's Homage to Hugh Lane . Other gold medallists included Margaret Clarke , Francis Doyle Jones , Letitia Hamilton , Power O'Malley , and Patrick Tuohy . At the Theatre Royal two recent operas by Irish composers were performed: Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer 's Sruth na Maoile (1922) and Harold White's Seán
310-697: The Shinty–Hurling International Series . The team is usually made up of a mixture of high-profile hurlers who compete in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship as well as lesser-known players who play for smaller counties which traditionally compete in the Christy Ring and Nicky Rackard Cups. The managers of the senior men's team during the most recent series in 2019 were Willie Maher and Conor Phelan . Danny Cullen of Donegal captained
341-507: The "Tailteann choir" singing the "Tailteann ode", with words by Oliver St. John Gogarty and music by Louis O'Brien. The ode won Gogarty a bronze medal in the literature section of the 1924 Olympic art competition . The Irish flag was carried by Tom Kiely , winner of the 1904 Olympic all-around (decathlon) title. To increase the quality of the competition, some Olympic stars without Irish heritage were invited to compete as guests. The dissident Irish republican movement which had lost
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#1732800981185372-535: The 1970s, apart from 1975. No full internationals were played between 1980 and 1987, but in 1988 the series was revived. Tailteann Games (Irish Free State) The Tailteann Games or Aonach Tailteann was an Irish sporting and cultural festival held in the Irish Free State in 1924, 1928, and 1932. It was intended as a modern revival of the Tailteann Games held from legendary times until
403-664: The Civil War urged a boycott of the games "falsely described as Aonach Tailteann", because it rejected the legitimacy of the Free State government which sponsored the games. Rugby union was excluded from the program because the Irish Rugby Football Union was seen as "undemocratic and almost un-Irish". Billiards events were held in the Catholic Club in O'Connell Street. Run in conjunction with
434-685: The Dáil in June 1922. Modern sports such as motorcycling and shooting were to be included, along with a parade of massed choirs. The possibility of out-doing the Olympic Games was mentioned: "We have got representations from America to the effect that it would be advisable to depart from the idea of confining the Tailteann games to the Irish race and seeing that they predated the Greek Olympic by
465-456: The GAA prevented a formalised series from occurring until the 1970s. It was not until 2003 that the Camanachd Association and the Gaelic Athletic Association committed to a yearly series, though in recent years the series has been changed from a single test series to a two test aggregate points series. In 2013, a sport, known as Iomain , which incorporates a stick that is created specifically for
496-581: The Irish Free State , had an "oddly assorted" group of guests invited by Yeats, including Augustus John , Sir Edwin Lutyens , writers Compton Mackenzie , G. K. Chesterton , Lennox Robinson , and Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo ; cricketers Ranjitsinhji and C. B. Fry ; and diplomats Willem Hubert Nolens and Erik Palmstierna . Chesterton accepted the medal on his behalf of the absent MacKenna, who later refused it. An art and craft exhibition at
527-477: The Irish race" was announced by Éamon de Valera in Dáil Éireann in 1921. The 1922 Irish Race Convention supported the plan for an "Irish Race Olympic". However, due to the Anglo-Irish War and Civil War it was not held until 1924. The meeting was launched to celebrate the independence of Ireland. The Hogan Stand was built and opened for the 1924 games. A report to revive the games was debated in
558-763: The Metropolitan Hall in Lower Abbey Street. The rowing events were held at the centre of rowing in Ireland, namely, Islandbridge on the River Liffey. Swimming events were held in the pond at Dublin Zoo . American Johnny Weissmuller and Australian Andrew "Boy" Charleton took part. Were held in Croke Park, Dublin. The American Harold Osborn , the 1924 Olympic high jump champion, won
589-619: The Post (1924), along with Shamus O'Brien (1896) by Charles V. Stanford . The last was not successful: "there seemed to be a greater number of people in the orchestra than in the audience". In the genre painting competition, Charles Lamb won a silver medal for Dancing at a Northern Crossroads , depicting a traditional crossroads dance . The programme for the 1928 games included athletics, billiards , boxing , camogie, chess, cycling, Gaelic football, golf , gymnastics , Gaelic handball , hurling, motorcycling , rowing , and swimming. At
620-489: The USA, South Africa and Australia as well as Ireland. Chess competitions were held in conjunction with the Irish Chess Union as part of the Tailteann Games. There were also artistic competitions and industrial displays. The games became regarded as a Cumann na nGaedheal project, and when that party lost power to Fianna Fáil after the 1932 election there was no financial backing for further games. This revival "meeting of
651-463: The United States, Scotland, and Ireland played. A shinty–hurling match was played between Scotland team organised by the Camanachd Association and an Ireland team organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The Camogie Association planned national and international camogie competitions, but withdrew after a dispute with the organisers, reflecting the anti-Free State bias of
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#1732800981185682-829: The association's leadership. An exhibition match was played without the association's sanction, while an association "Ireland" team played in London. The handball events were played in Ballymun and Clondalkin. Races took place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Musical events came in several types and were held in a number of venues. There were performances and competitions. Some performances including operas took place in The Theatre Royal. Some competitions such as band contests were held in Ballsbridge and some were in
713-710: The awards ceremony in the Iveagh Gardens , the pageant The Coming of Fionn by Seamus MacCall was staged. The 1928 Games was won by John O'Hanlon a multiple Irish Champion. Was held on the Lee in Cork. Took place in Blackrock baths The Barnacullia tug of war team (mostly composed of stonecutters) beat the Guinness tug of war team. The Motor Boat event of 1928 took place at Ballyglass, Co. Westmeath, home of
744-522: The first official series featuring an amalgamation of rules from both sports, occurred at Celtic Park in Scotland between Glasgow Cowal and Dublin Celtic. International tests between all-Scotland and all-Ireland teams were played intermittently prior to World War II . There were several attempts to establish regular meetings dating back to the Tailteann Games in 1928. However, anti-British sentiment within
775-655: The hurling tournament. At the 1928 Aonach Tailteann, Ireland and the United States were the only participants in the hurling tournament, with Ireland securing a 5-9 to 4-3 victory. The final Aonach Tailteann in 1932 saw four teams competing; Ireland, the United States, Great Britain, and South Africa. On 14 October 1933, representatives of the Gaelic Athletic Association and the Camanachd Association agreed to new rules governing international matches. An international compromise rules match
806-553: The hybrid game, was trialled at Croke Park , with a view to it being introduced as a replacement for the current series. Following a three year absence during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was announced that the series would return to Dublin in autumn 2023. Currently, the scoring system operates as follows: The list below only refers to all matches played between Ireland and Scotland since the inception of regular Shinty–Hurling International Series fixtures in 2003. The women's game
837-570: The record was last set. Ireland national hurling team The Ireland national hurling team is a representative team for the island of Ireland in the hybrid sport of composite rules shinty–hurling . The team dates from 1924 when Ireland competed at the Aonach Tailteann against national hurling teams from several countries. However, at present the only team it plays is the Scotland national shinty team , on an annual basis in
868-544: The sailing regatta. Match on declared speed, allowances conceded at start. First boat at 4.15 pm. Shantax. winner. W. B. Yeats persuaded the Royal Irish Academy to award prizes. The gold medal went to Stephen MacKenna for his translation of Plotinus ; other winners were Oliver Gogarty, Francis Stuart , and James Stephens . A banquet presided over by T. M. Healy , the Governor-General of
899-608: The same event in the Tailteann Games at Croke Park. The Sailing events of 1924 were sailed in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire ) on Saturday in the second week of August. 'Darthula' Mr. W. Graham, 'Innisfallen' Messrs. Nesbitt & Weir. 'Bonita' Messrs. Hartnell & McGoogan, 'Mercia III' Mr.W.J. Smalldridge. Silver Moon 3rd. Mollie, A.E. Snow 2nd, Tomboy, Messrs Barrett & Donnelly 3rd. The Motor Boat event of 1924 took place in Dublin Bay in conjunction with
930-418: The team in 2019. The first international hurling competition to be held was at the Aonach Tailteann in 1924. Teams from Ireland, the United States, England, Scotland, and Wales participated in the hurling tournament. The Scotland national shinty team also participated in the games, inflicting a surprise 2-0 to 1-0 defeat on Ireland on the opening day of the games. However, Ireland won all of its matches in
961-524: Was planned for Easter of the following year. However, the Camanachd Association broke off its links with the GAA following pressure from the British government. As a result of continued Camanachd Association opposition to links with the GAA, the next full international between Ireland and Scotland would not be held until 1972. On 5 August 1972, Ireland defeated Scotland 6-4 to 4-5 at Bught Park , Inverness . Further internationals were held each year during