What is Hurling?

              Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for over 3,000 years and is considered to be the world's fastest field sport. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, number of players, and much terminology. There is a similar game for women called camogie. It shares a common Gaelic root with the sport of shinty which is played predominantly in Scotland.
               You may strike the ball on the ground, or in the air. Unlike hockey, you may pick up the ball with your hurley and carry it for not more than four steps in the hand. After those steps you may bounce the ball on the hurley and back to the hand, but you are forbidden to catch the ball more than twice. To get around this, one of the skills is running with the ball balanced on the hurley To score, you put the ball over the crossbar with the hurley or under the crossbar and into the net by the hurley for a goal, the latter being the equivalent of three points.
                Hurling is played throughout the world, and is popular among members of the Irish diaspora in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina. In Ireland, it is a fixture of life. It has featured regularly in both film and literature. In 2007, Forbes magazine described the media attention and population multiplication of Thurles town ahead of one of the game’s annual provincial hurling finals as being “the rough equivalent of 30 million Americans watching a regional lacrosse game.” In 1931, Time magazine suggested the sport of golf was “a form of hurling modified by a more cautious race”.  American soldiers have also expressed their love of the game’s warrior ethos.



Source: GAA and Wikipedia
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PVD HC in the News

2019 Features:
https://issuu.com/culturecollide/docs/spring_graduate_isse_2019_pages?e=0

2018 Features:
https://www.rimonthly.com/inside-the-providence-hurling-club/
​http://motifri.com/hurling/
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2017 Features:
https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2017/1119/921302-hurling-game-inspires-american-teen-to-form-new-club/
https://nesn.com/2017/11/hurling-taking-hold-in-northeast-thanks-to-providence-hurling-club/
providenceonline.com/stories/providence-hurling-club-providence-monthly,24628
​http://www.golocalprov.com/live/providence-hurling-clubs-kennelly-says-game-is-growing-in-u.s
www.rimonthly.com/give-it-a-hurl/

2015 Features:
http://www.providenceonline.com/stories/providence-hurling-club-traditional-irish-sports,15751
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151008/SPORTS/151009391/0/SEARC

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