Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

The Dublin team plays most of their home league hurling and Gaelic Football games at Parnell Park.

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

The All-Ireland Senior Championship is run as a knock-out competition, with the top two counties meeting in the All-Ireland Football Final, considered the most prestigious event in Gaelic football.

Under the auspices of the GAA, Gaelic football is a male-only sport ; however, the related sport of ladies ' Gaelic football is governed by the Ladies ' Gaelic Football Association.

** Underage Gaelic football teams have also had considerable successes on the field at both provincial and national level-winning the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship seven times ( the most recent, also in 2010 ) and the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship four times.

* Lisnaskea Emmett's Gaelic Football

* Munster Senior Football Championship, Gaelic Athletic Association inter county competition

* Munster Senior Club Football Championship, Gaelic Athletic Association club competition

Slane Gaelic Football Club comprises the local parish Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football teams for the urban and rural areas of Slane.

That afternoon, a mixed force of the British Army the Royal Irish Constabulary, and the Black and Tans retaliated by shooting up a Gaelic Football match at Croke Park.

The women's version of these games, ladies ' Gaelic football and camogie, are organised by the independent but closely linked Ladies ' Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association of Ireland respectively.

International Rules Football matches have taken place between an Irish national team drawn from the ranks of Gaelic footballers, against an Australian national team drawn from the Australian Football League.

Lights display in Croke Park to mark the Gaelic Athletic Association's 125th anniversary, after the opening game of the National Football League ( Ireland ) | 2009 National Football League

# To support the promotion of Camogie and Ladies Gaelic Football.

There is a Gaelic Football Club made in his honour, Shane O ' Neill's G. F. C.

Since 1884 the site has been used primarily by the GAA to host Gaelic games, most notably the annual finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and Senior Hurling Championship.

The next three biggest grounds are all in Munster – Semple Stadium in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, with a capacity of 53, 000, the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick, which holds 50, 000 and Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Co. Cork, which can accommodate 43, 500.

The biggest island in the Loch, known as the Isle of Loch Tay, or in Gaelic Eilean nam Ban-naomh, ' Isle of Holy Women ', is just north of Kenmore.

A Gaelic poem laments: It's bad what Malcolm's son has done, dividing us from Alexander ; he causes, like each king's son before, the plunder of stable Alba.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

* Strathspeys are specific to Highland Scotland, for example, and it has been hypothesized that they mimic the rhythms of the Scottish Gaelic language.

Fermanagh GAA has never won a Senior Provincial or an All-Ireland title in any Gaelic games.

The Scottish Gaelic form is and has the additional meanings of " pulpit " and " churn ".

Defoe's description of Glasgow ( Glaschu ) as a " Dear Green Place " has often been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for the town.

The Dayton Celtic Festival attracts more than 30, 000 people yearly and has Irish dancing, food, crafts, and performers such as Gaelic Storm.

Historically, a dot was positioned above certain consonants to signify Séimhiú, however this has largely been replaced by the usage of the letter H, although this dot can still be seen in Gaelic Script.

The headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association, it has a capacity of 82, 300.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

The Gaelic triangular, wire-strung harp has always been known by the feminine term cruit but by 1204 was certainly known by the masculine term ' clàr ' ( board ) and, by the 14th century, by the feminine form of ' clàr ', i. e., ' clàirseach / clàrsach '.

Ironically, given the status of the Western Isles as the last Gàidhlig-speaking stronghold in Scotland, the Gaelic language name for the islands – Innse Gall – means " isles of the foreigners " which has roots in the time when they were under Norse colonisation.

They are today seen mainly in a sporting context, as Ireland's four professional rugby teams play under the names of the provinces, and the Gaelic Athletic Association has separate Provincial councils and Provincial championships.

Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic ( and more specifically Gaelic ) heritage even more broadly.

Gaelic football has also been introduced to Malmö, with the new Malmö G. A. A.

The origin of the name Rockall is uncertain but it has been suggested that it derives from the Gaelic Sgeir Rocail, meaning skerry ( or sea rock ) of roaring, ( although rocail can also be translated as " tearing " or " ripping ").

Similarities between Gaelic football and Australian rules football have allowed the development of international rules football, a hybrid sport, and a series of Test matches has been held annually since 1998, with the exception of the cancelled 2007 edition.

Ireland has several main groups of accents, including ( 1 ) those of Dublin and surrounding areas on the east coast where English has been spoken since the earliest period of colonisation from Britain, ( 2 ) the accents of Ulster, with a strong influence from Scotland as well as the underlying Gaelic linguistic stratum which in that province approaches the Gaelic of Scotland, and ( 3 ) the various accents of west, midlands and south.

As a result, significant portions of the three provinces are influenced by Celtic heritages, with Scottish Gaelic having been widely spoken, particularly in Cape Breton, although it is less prevalent today.

Lewis is Ljoðhús in Old Norse and although various suggestions have been made as to a Norse meaning ( such as " song house ") the name is not of Gaelic origin and the Norse credentials are questionable.

Other sources claim that either a daughter or niece would have been too young to fit the timeline, thus the likely relative would have been Siward's own sister Sybil, which may have translated into Gaelic as Suthen.

Various other languages, which are not closely related, have been heavily influenced by Norse, particularly the Norman dialects, Scottish Gaelic and Waterford Irish.

Strontium is named after the Scottish village of Strontian ( Gaelic Sron an t-Sithein ), having been discovered in the ores taken from the lead mines there.

Dál Riata is commonly viewed as having been a Gaelic Irish colony in Scotland, a satellite of the Irish Kingdom of Ulster, and populated by a Scoti or Scotia people.

For this reason, it is now widely, but not universally, supposed that the Gaelic language had long been present in the area of Dál Riata, perhaps since the Insular Celtic languages had divided into Goidelic and Brythonic branches.

Authors in Donegal have been creating works, like the Annals of the Four Masters, in Gaelic and Latin since the Early Middle Ages.

The authenticity of the poems is now generally doubted, though they may have been based on fragments of Gaelic legend, and to some extent the controversy has overshadowed their considerable literary merit and influence on Romanticism.

In the 19th century Aonghas MacCoinnich of Glasgow proposed that Scoti was derived from the Gaelic word Sgaothaich but this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies.

Alternatively, hoax could have been derived from the Irish Gaelic olcas, pronounced olkəs and h-olkəs, an adjective used to describe behaviour similar to mischief, naughtiness, spite, wickedness, evil.

The 19th century author Aonghas MacCoinnich of Glasgow proposed that Scoti was derived from a Gaelic ethnonym ( proposed by MacCoinnich ) Sgaothaich from sgaoth " swarm ", plus the derivational suffix-ach ( plural-aich ) However, this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies.

Throughout the history of the Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA ) in Fermanagh, Lisnaskea has consistently been a major force in Gaelic football, ladies football and hurling.