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Secondary School Tours

Take a look at our menu of experiences for secondary school students.

Just like any good team we’re always training, always listening and always looking for ways to be the best we can be. These new experiences are the result of feedback from both teachers and students, and we’ve learned what you really want from your school tours.

We know your time is precious and we hope our new programme will offer an educational, fun and worthwhile day out at Croke Park for Junior Cert Cycle, Leaving Cert Cycle and Transition Year students alike.

In advance of your group visiting the GAA Museum, please ensure you are familiar with all the terms and conditions regarding group tours

We look forward to seeing you pitchside very soon.

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TAKING THE MYSTERY OUT OF HISTORY

This experience is designed especially for students studying History for the Leaving Certificate.

What better way to really immerse your students in the story of the GAA than with a history field trip at the home of Gaelic games. Even the hard-to-impress student will find themselves with a new appreciation of our past. This visit centres around four themes:
 

1. National Awakenings

We begin with the ultimate scene setter – a screening of our specially commissioned National Awakenings film, which charts the birth of the GAA at a time of cultural revival in Ireland. The film examines the links between the GAA and the Irish struggle for independence and explains how GAA members became entwined in this turbulent period of Irish history.
 

2. GAA Museum Show and Tell

This is a fascinating, in-depth tour of the GAA Museum, where your tour guide will point out exhibits and artefacts linked to prominent historical figures that are key to the Leaving Certificate syllabus. Highlights include a match ticket from Bloody Sunday 1920 and a minute book from the Geraldines Athletics Club in London, where Michael Collins served as treasurer and secretary.
 

3. Historical Croke Park

Here students will get under the skin of Croke Park, visiting the dressing rooms and warm-up area before experiencing the thrill of walking pitchside through the players’ tunnel. Your class will take a seat in the Ard Comhairle (our VIP section) to learn more about the history of the GAA and the role the Association played in the development of modern Ireland. They’ll also hear about events surrounding Bloody Sunday 1920 and learn of prominent GAA personalities including Michael Cusack, Maurice Davin and Archbishop Croke.
 

4. A World Class Venue

From a look back to a look down – students will get to take a break from the history and enjoy a birds’ eye view of the famous pitch from the Mícheál O’Hehir Media Centre. They’ll hear all about stadium life on match day, when up to 82,000 fans make their way to the home of Gaelic games.

THE SKYDIUM MASHUP

See all that Croke Park has to offer in our specially designed ‘Skydium’ experience that combines highlights from our popular Croke Park Tour and our thrilling Kellogg's Skyline Croke Park Tour.

Kellogg's Skyline Croke Park Tour

Croke Park’s rooftop walkway is Dublin’s highest open-viewing platform and offers breath-taking panoramic views of our vibrant capital from the mountains to the sea. Our Tour Guides will treat your students to a Dublin City Tour like no other, giving them an insight into its heartfelt history.
 

Croke Park Stadium Tour

Ranked as one of the best things to do in Dublin, your students will thank you for this backstage pass. They’ll get to take a seat in the VIP area, sneak a peek inside the dressing rooms and even walk in the footsteps of Gaelic legends as they go pitchside through the players’ tunnel!

Your tour includes a screening of our ‘September Days’ film, which captures the magic of All-Ireland Final Day. To round off a memorable day at the GAA HQ, time in the GAA Museum and our interactive games zone is also included.

BLOODY SUNDAY CENTENARY

In honour of the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the GAA Museum remembers the tragedy of Bloody Sunday with special commemorative guided tours of Croke Park.

The most infamous event in the history of the GAA occurred on Sunday November 21st 1920 when the War of Independence was raging in Ireland. That morning an assassination unit known as ‘the squad’, under the command of Michael Collins, mounted an operation to take out the backbone of the British intelligence network in Ireland. Following the operation 12 agents were dead. It is thought that the events that occurred later that day in Croke Park were in direct retaliation for these deaths.