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GAA Museum Review
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GAA Museum
- Address: New Stand, Croke Park, North County Dublin, Dublin, Co. Dublin
- Phone: 01/855-8176
- www.gaa.ie
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: North County Dublin
Fodor's Review:
The Irish are sports crazy, and reserve their fiercest pride for their native games. In the bowels of Croke Park, the main stadium and headquarters of the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association), this museum gives you a great introduction to native Irish sport. The four Gaelic games (football, hurling, camogie, and handball) are explained in detail, and if you're brave enough you can have a go yourself. High-tech displays take you through the history and highlights of the games. National Awakening is a really smart, interesting short film reflecting the key impact of the GAA on the emergence of the Irish nation and the forging of a new Irish identity. The exhilarating A Day in September captures the thrill and passion of All Ireland finals day -- the annual denouement of the intercounty hurling and Gaelic football seasons -- which is every bit as important to the locals as the Super Bowl is to sports fans in the U.S. Tours of the stadium, the fourth largest in Europe, are available.
- Cost: Museum EUR 5.50, museum and stadium tour EUR 9.50
- Open: July and Aug., Mon.-Sat. 9:30-6, Sun. noon-5; Sept.-June, Mon.-Sat. 9:30-5, Sun. noon-5
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