Michael Cusack penned this letter to Maurice Davin suggesting that a meeting take place in Munster “in some central place in Tipperary on the 1st November next” as the “Irish Association with its members must be formed before the end of this year’.

Cusack also writes that the new Association will need the support of the press and the “assistance of the leaders of the people” (Parnell and Davitt) adding that he has convinced them to support the new Association and that they will now “work together caring for none but the Irish people”.

Davin subsequently chaired the founding meeting of the GAA and became the Association’s first President.  His immense popularity as an outstanding athlete was vital in winning support for the new association in its early days.

Davin drafted the initial constitution for the GAA which initiated the county and club units that are still in place today.