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Hurling at a glance.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Byline: Tom Reed
History of hurling:
Hurling is Europe's oldest field game. The Celts came to Ireland at the tail end of the final Ice Age and brought a game similar to hurling with them. It has been a distinctly Irish game for 2,000 years. Early games were violent and people even died from blows to the head. The Celts used their hurling sticks in battle for defense.
The Normans and later the British attempted to suppress the sport, but it survived in the countrysides and in underground games. In the middle to late 19th century, The Great Famine wiped out much of ...
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