Eight men assembled in the billiards room of Hayes Hotel in Thurles at 3pm on Saturday, November 1, 1884, and created the GAA. The vision Michael Cusack had that day for an organisation that would preserve and protect native Irish sports would go on to become the vanguard of 20th-century cultural nationalism, only growing in fervent tenacity in the wake of Irish independence.
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