From a hotel billiard room in Thurles to an 82,300-capacity stadium: 17 turning points in the story of hurling, football, camogie, handball and rounders, each from the sources linked under it. For every county’s titles, see All-Ireland winners.
On 1 November 1884, in the billiard room of Hayes’ Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary. Michael Cusack and Maurice Davin called the meeting, and Davin was elected the first president.
Rule 27, from 1901, barred GAA members from playing or watching non-Gaelic games such as soccer, rugby and cricket. It was abolished in 1971.
Brought in in 1897, it barred members of the British forces from joining the GAA. A special congress removed it in November 2001.
On 21 November 1920, British forces opened fire at a Dublin–Tipperary football match, killing or fatally wounding 14 civilians, among them three children and the Tipperary player Michael Hogan, after whom the Hogan Stand is named.
On 11 February 2007, Ireland against France in the Six Nations, after the GAA relaxed Rule 42 in 2005 while Lansdowne Road was rebuilt.
Drawn from these Wikipedia articles, read in October 2026: Gaelic Athletic Association, Maurice Davin, Croke Park, Bloody Sunday (1920), Rule 42, Camogie, Camogie Association, Ladies' Gaelic Football Association, Gaelic handball, GAA rounders, Rounders. The Bloody Sunday toll is Wikipedia’s figure of 14 killed or fatally wounded at Croke Park. The Camogie Association article dates its founding to 1904 and the Camogie article to 1905; we show both. The GAA’s own history pages were not used.
All-Ireland titles by county · The revolution by county · 1916