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New GAA Ezine

[ Thu, 18th Feb 2010 ]

February 2010

Welcome to the new look GAA Museum ezine!

This month the GAA Museum celebrates Midterm with daily Telling Tall Tales Tours and a special KidZone Gallery Talk focusing on the famous 1947 All-Ireland Football Final between Cavan and Kerry.

A special Legends Wall has been created in the museum which will remain in place throughout 2010. We want to know 'Who is your GAA Legend'? This is your opportunity to have your say, so answers on a 'Legends Postcard' please to the GAA Museum, Croke Park, Dublin 3.

The museum is running a number of special offers for senior citizens and GAA Clubs so if you want to bring your group to Croke Park for the ultimate day out why not avail of our recession busting prices!

Finally, the GAA Museum and Croke Park have launched a fantastic new website with a new section on the GAA Archive, check it out and let us know what you think!

The Legends Wall

This year the GAA Museum wants to know 'Who is your GAA Legend?’ It could be a player, a friend, a coach, someone famous, someone you know, someone you admire or someone you respect. Simply pick up or download a Legends Card, write about or draw a picture of your GAA Legend and send it to the GAA Museum.

Each month a Legends Card will be chosen to feature as the Legend of the Month on the new look GAA Museum website and monthly ezine.

Whoever you choose as your GAA legend we want to know about it!

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Midterm Break Telling Tall Tales Tour

Monday 15th - Friday 19th February, 2.30pm Daily

Take an extra special tour of Croke Park during the midterm break where the tour guide might be telling lies, tut tut! Come along and see if you can tell when our guides are telling tall tales or when they are actually telling the truth! Find out more.

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KidZone Gallery Talk - The Star Spangled Final!

20th February, 1.30pm

Did you know that the 1947 All-Ireland Football Final was played in the Polo Grounds Stadium in New York City? Come along to the GAA Museum and become a KidZone Museum detective to discover more, try on old jerseys and design your very own match poster. Afterwards why not take a Croke Park Stadium Tour? Find out more.

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Special Offer - Senior Citizen Mondays

Mondays are now Senior Citizen day at the GAA Museum!

Seniors Citizens are invited to the GAA Museum to take a behind-the-scenes guided tour of Croke Park Stadium for just €5, less than half the adult price. Fitzers Catering have also added to the deal by offering 10% off in the Museum’s Café.

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Special Offer - 50% off for GAA Clubs

The GAA Museum is offering a whopping 50% off for all GAA Club visits up to 31st March 2010. Bring your club to Croke Park, take a behind-the-scenes guided tour of the stadium, test your skills in the museum's Interactive Games Area and present your team with medals where the All-Ireland trophies are lifted.

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A facelift for the GAA Museum?

Visitors to the GAA Museum over the coming weeks will notice some construction work to our Cafe, reception, games area and exhibition space. The museum is under going an exciting and significant facelift but will remain open for business as usual. We ask patrons to be patient with us and all will be revealed in April!

Keep an eye on our website and ezine for updates.

GAA Archive Image of the Month

Micheal Colins, Luke O'Toole and Harry Boland, Croke Park, 1919

Each month the GAA Archive will feature one image from its vast collections as Image of the Month. All images will be availlable to purchase online from the Archive Shop.

February's image features Micheal Collins and Harry Boland in Croke Park in 1919 along with GAA Secretary Luke O'Toole. Collins became a prominent figure in London GAA circles after 1906 and went on to become the treasurer of Gerldines GAA Club in West London. Through his involvement with the GAA in London Collins met Sam Maguire who initiated Collins into the IRB. Boland was born into a GAA family and went on to become a member of the Dublin Senior hurling team, a member of the GAA Central Council in 1901 and Chairman of the Dublin County Board in 1911.

This photo was taken a year before the infamous Bloody Sunday shootings at Croke Park.