Here, we share an exclusive extract from Hayley Kilgallon’s newly released title, Unladylike: A History of Ladies Gaelic Football.
Here, we share an exclusive extract from Hayley Kilgallon’s newly released title,After first emerging in the 1920s, ladies Gaelic football was soon sidelined; breathless women chasing after a football was just too unladylike for the powers that be.
A few years later, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association was founded in Hayes Hotel in Thurles, Co. Tipperary in 1974. The setting up of the LGFA, also known as Cumann Peil Gael na mBan, was significant as it meant that, for the first time ever, an association would actively manage and promote the playing of Gaelic football for women in Ireland.
It was hugely successful in doing this, turning Gaelic football and hurling into some of the most popular sports in Ireland by the early twentieth century. However, at the founding meeting of the GAA there had been no discussion about facilitating Gaelic games for women. Perhaps this is not surprising, considering that the social norms of the time laid down that sport, generally speaking, was for men only.
Some people of the time likely argued that women already had enough of a Gaelic sporting outlet with camogie, a version of hurling adapted for females that was reported to have first been played in 1898 in Navan at an event commemorating the 1798 Rebellion. The setting up of the Camogie Association in 1904 certainly did fill a small gap in the sporting market for women who wanted to take part in Gaelic games.
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