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Michael Cusacks's Sydney GAA Club was founded in 1988 by a group of Clare men and was named in honour of the man from Carran. [ 11 ] Chicago Michael Cusack Hurling Club is a GAA club consisting entirely of American-born players founded in 2008.
The Dublin Hurling Club lasted only two months but Cusack persevered and continued playing hurling in the Phoenix Park on Saturday afternoons. By October 1883, the number of people playing alongside Cusack had increased to such an extent that the Cusack’s Academy Hurling Club was formed. This hurling club in turn led to the establishment of ...
Sep 23, 2009 · Cusack’s weekly games of hurling in the Phoenix Park continued to gather more and more participants and by 1883 he had sufficient numbers to found Cusack’s Academy Hurling Club which, in turn ...
Michael Cusack was born on 20 September, 1847 in the parish of Carron on the eastern fringe of the Burren in north Clare. He lived in a small cottage with his parents, four brothers and one sister. The Cusack homestead still stands today. Little is know of his childhood. On Sundays after Mass, Cusack and the other boys in the parish hurled and ...
Michael Cusack, founder of the GAA, was born in the small parish of Carron in North Clare, in 1847. His childhood home is now a museum. Michael Cusack was born on 20 September, 1847, in the parish of Carron in North Clare. He grew up on the eastern edge of the Burren in a small cottage with his parents, four brothers and one sister.
In 1882 he attended the first meeting of the Dublin Hurling Club, formed ‘for the purpose of taking steps to re-establish the national game of hurling’. The weekly games of hurling, in the Phoenix Park, became so popular that, in 1883, Cusack had sufficient numbers to found ‘Cusack’s Academy Hurling Club’ which, in turn, led to the establishment of the Metropolitan Hurling Club.
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Cusack was a strongly built man and a good all-round athlete who played hurling, football, and cricket, and excelled at the high jump and weight-throwing events. In May 1875 he entered the Dublin Athletic Club sports meeting, and his excellent performances in the 16-lb (7.25 kg) and 42-lb (19 kg) weight-throwing events were praised by the Irish Sportsman .
