The GAA Archive holds a number of interesting GAA related documents. Each month staff at the GAA Museum choose one such document which is then displayed here as the 'Document of the Month'.

The document chosen for February 2010 is the 1784 handwritten poem ‘The Hurling Ball’

Please click on the provided link to read the poem in full

This poem, consisting of seven stanzas, is handwritten on the back of an account sheet. The poem, dated the 23rd of December 1784 (100 years before the foundation of the GAA), contains the verse
                              “but had I each evening a hurl and ball 
                               a green for to play on and drink there with all
                               a guinea to spend and a girl at my call
                               I would never desire to be richer”
The poem is currently on exhibit in the GAA Museum. For information on visiting the GAA Museum and Stadium Tours please click here.