Hurling is a stick-and-ball team sport from Ireland, played between two teams of fifteen using a wooden stick called a hurley to hit a small ball, called a sliotar, for points scored over a crossbar or into a netted goal. It is one of the oldest field sports in Europe, with roots documented in Irish literature more than a thousand years old, and was codified alongside Gaelic football under the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884. The women's version of the sport, camogie, is organized under a separate association, and hurling remains organized on a strictly amateur basis, most prominent in Ireland.
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Originating Region International Governing BodyGaelic Athletic Association 1 Connections
Ancestor Of
Why this is disputed. Wikipedia says believed to have evolved, primarily from bandy, hurling and shinty
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Associated With
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Gaelic Football, Sports Both are Gaelic Athletic Association games sharing pitch, goals, player numbers and terminology.
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Early history
Forms of stick-and-ball games have been played in Ireland since at least the Early Middle Ages.
Governance, administration
Hurling is today administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
Infobox, First played field
first codified match played 27 January 1883 in Dublin, Ireland
Associated With: Gaelic Football, Introduction
One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much terminology.
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Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere, primarily bandy, hurling, and shinty.
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the games of hurling (Ireland) and knattleikr (Iceland), both team ball games involving sticks to drive a ball to the opponents' goal, date at least as far back as the Early Middle Ages
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