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In our series of articles from the GAA Museum, the GAA’s role in America and the events that led to the 1947 Polo Grounds Final are analysed

IN HIS book The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields, Séamus J King presents evidence for hurling in New York as early as 1763. It is likely that Irishmen, serving in the British Army, brought the game to America at this time; it is just as likely that the game left with the garrison in 1783.