GAA Museum & Tours
Sports museum beneath a stadium stand, tracing Gaelic games from ancient roots to a tragic nineteen twenty match day.
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This guide to the GAA Museum at Croke Park in Dublin follows the objects in its cases back to a single Sunday in November 1920, when a challenge match between Dublin and Tipperary was underway and Crown forces entered the stadium. You'll hear about Annie Burke, a woman from Sligo who was in the crowd that day and kept a battered pair of glasses for the rest of her life, and about a spare bootlace, a prayer book and other relics tied to the players and bystanders on the pitch. It's told beneath the stand that still carries a name from that day, among the letters and tickets the museum has gathered to hold onto it.
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