Highlighting the ways in which the greats of Gaeilc Games are remembered. Instagram: @monuments_gaa
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Thurles Sarsfields GAA club honour the players from the club who have captained All Ireland winning Tipperary teams through this iconic mural in Thurles.
It is passed by thousands of hurling supporters each year as they make their way into Semple Stadium.
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Maurice Davin, the first President of the GAA, is commemorated by this 9 foot statue in Carrick-on-Suir.
Davin, who has a Stand named in his honour in Croke Park, was also an athlete of great renown.
The statue was created by Barry Wrafter and unveiled in 2013.
Waterford’s flying goalkeeper Ned Power, immortalised in sculpture by Seán MacCarthy.
Power was goalkeeper on the Waterford team that won the All Ireland hurling championship in 1959. He also won 3 Munster championships, a NHL and a Railway Cup.
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‘The Prince of Hurlers’. This statue in Annacotty, Co. Limerick remembers the Ahane, Limerick & Munster hero, Jackie Power.
A winner of 2 All Ireland SHCs, 5 NHLs, 7 Railway Cups and 15 County C’ships as a player.
That only begins to tell the story of his impact on GAA.
On August 29 2011, President Mary McAleese unveiled the @seamusgti statue of Dermot Earley in his hometown of Gortaganny.
One of the greats of Roscommon football, Earley won 5 Connacht titles, a NFL and 2 All Star Awards.
He also was Chief of Staff of @defenceforces
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Mark Richards’ statue of Bill ‘Squires’ Gannon which was installed earlier this year in Kildare Town.
Gannon captained 1928 All Ireland winners Kildare and was the first man to receive the Sam Maguire Cup.
The statue will be officially unveiled in September. 📸 @markxrichards
The formidable statue of Michael Cusack, by sculptor Paul Ferriter, beneath the stand which also bears his name at Croke Park.
Born during the worst year of the Great Famine in 1847, he would become an inspirational figure in the founding of the GAA.
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This plaque, unveiled in 2009, commemorates Frank B. Dineen who purchased the grounds at Jones’ Road in 1908 before gifting them to the GAA in 1913.
He is also the only person to have held both the offices of secretary and President of the GAA.
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On November 22nd 2020 a statue of Michael Hogan was unveiled in Grangemockler, Co Tipperary. Hogan was the only player killed on Bloody Sunday in Croke Park in 1920. Many other memorials to him can be found, most famously the Hogan Stand in Croke Park. #gaa #crokepark #tipperary
In 1983 a nine-foot bronze statue was unveiled in Cloyne in County Cork to arguably the greatest hurler of all time, Christy Ring (1920 - 1979). Costing £35,000, the sculpture by Yann Goulet was unveiled by former Taoiseach and teammate of Ring, Jack Lynch. #gaa #cork #cloynegaa
