GAA Museum Summer School

Celebrating Sam Maguire, the man and the trophy

Saturday 30th June
Open to everyone (ticketed event)

Tickets are now on sale for this one-day event that’s not to be missed!

In addition to our anniversary, 2018 marks the 90^th Anniversary of the Sam Maguire Cup being first presented to the winners of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. So at this seminar, we will be celebrating the theme of ‘Sam Maguire – The Man and the Trophy’.

A range of distinguished speakers from academic and museum backgrounds will form the line-up for a fascinating day of talks and insights into the man after whom the GAA’s most iconic trophy is named.

The programme for the day is as follows:

10.00 – 10.15: Official Opening with Uachtarán CLG John Horan
10.15 – 11.00: Sam Maguire’s Ireland, 1877 – 1926 (Dr. William Murphy)
11.00 – 11.45: Sam Maguire’s GAA, 1884 – 1926 (Dr. Richard McElligott)
11.45 – 12.30: Cork days, London nights: the lives, and afterlives, of Sam Maguire (Dr. Darragh Gannon)
12.30 – 13.00: Lunch
13.00 – 13.45: The Quiet Corner Back - Protestant involvement with the GAA (Dr. Ida Milne)
13.45 – 14.30: The Sam Maguire Trophy (Humphrey Kelleher)
14.30 – 15.15: Photo opportunity with original Sam Maguire Cup

Every attendee will have the unique opportunity to get a photo with the original cup that was retired in 1987 and is now on permanent display in the GAA Museum.

Admission price includes tea/coffee on arrival, lunch in Croke Park and admission to the GAA Museum on Saturday 30th June, as well as a photo opportunity with the original Sam Maguire Cup.

Ticket price: €30 per ticket (including tea / coffee on arrival and lunch)

About our guest speakers

Dr. William Murphy
Dr. William Murphy is a lecturer in modern Irish history at Dublin City University. He the author of Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921 (Oxford, 2014). He is also co-editor of Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool, 2016) and The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009 (Dublin, 2009). His new book, co-authored with Dr Anne Dolan (TCD), is Michael Collins: the man and the revolution. It will appear later this year, published by Collins Press.

Dr. Richard McElligott
Dr Richard McElligott, is a lecturer in modern Irish history at University College Dublin. A native of north Kerry, he was awarded his doctorate from UCD in 2012 for his research which examined the first 50 years of the history of the GAA and its social, cultural and political impact on Irish life and society during those turbulent decades surrounding the birth of the independent Irish state.   He is editor of A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland and is also a regular contributor to the Irish Times, Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent. In 2013 his first book, Forging a Kingdom: The GAA in Kerry, 1884-1934 was published to widespread acclaim.

Dr. Darragh Gannon
Dr. Darragh Gannon is a historian of modern Ireland and the global Irish diaspora, with particular expertise in the Irish revolution. He has published widely on the Irish revolution in British historical context and is finalising a monograph entitled Conflict, diaspora and empire: Irish nationalism in Great Britain, 1912-1922. He served as Curatorial Researcher to the National Museum of Ireland exhibition ‘Proclaiming a Republic: the 1916 Rising’ and authored its accompanying volume Proclaiming a Republic: Ireland, 1916 and the National Collection. He is currently Research Fellow to the AHRC-funded project ‘A global history of Irish Revolution, 1916-1923’ (2017-2020), based at Queen’s University Belfast.

Dr. Ida Milne
Dr. Ida Milne is a social historian and Vice Chair of the Oral History Network of Ireland. Her principal research field is in the impact of infectious disease on Irish society and she has recently published Stacking the Coffins, Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland 1918-1919 with Manchester University Press. Her other active research interests include newspaper history and the subject of this paper, Protestant involvement with the GAA. With Dr Ian d’Alton, she is editing a collection of essays, Protestant and Irish - the minority’s search for place in independent Ireland, to be published by Cork University Press in winter 2018.

Humphrey Kelleher
Humphrey Kelleher is originally from Abbeyside in Co. Waterford and represented the Déise hurlers at minor, U21 and senior level.   A resident of Dublin since 1972, Humphrey is a member of the Naomh Mearnóg GAA Club in Portmarnock. He has successfully managed a number of Dublin hurling clubs, including Beann Éadair, Naomh Mearnóg, Naomh Barróg, Clanna Gael Fontenoys and Castleknock. He managed the Dublin senior hurling ream in 2004-2005.

Humphrey is the author of Family Silver – The People & Stories Behind 101 Cups and Trophies; he is also the co-author of the Blueprint for Change and Success for Dublin Hurling (2001).   He is currently researching the history and development of GAA county grounds throughout Ireland.

Ticket price: €30 per ticket (including tea / coffee on arrival and lunch)