Gaelic games

[Raingeanach]

"Get up, up, ilk Hielan` wight:
The magpie coos, the morn is bright:
Seize he camac: grasp it tight,
An` hasten awa` to shinty.
Then drain the quaich, fill again,
Loudly blaw the martial strain,
An` welcome gie wi` micht an` main,
To guid auld Hielan` shinty."


Hugh Dan MacLennan examines shinty as played in Ireland, Lowland Scotland, England, Canada, Australia, etc.
http://www.robdownie.supanet.com/history.html

[Scottish_Republican]

Napier University's GAA is one of the most successful in Scotland and England right now.

[Raingeanach]

If you are a true Celt (Scots, Irish, Welsh) interested
in Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures, purchase the book by that name edited by Grant Jarvie.
Chapter three is entitled Sport and Scottish Gaeldom 1790-1900 by Lorna Jackson.

Beware of caber tossers!

Note: "At these gatherings the traditional sports - throwing the hammer and the stone, racing and leaping were pursued as trials of strength, swiftness and agility..."

The caber seldom featured in such games.

[emma25]

Raingeanach>> And a "caber tosser" is...

It sounds like a "log thrower"?!

[SherbrookeJacobite]

Originally posted by Raingeanach


Beware of caber tossers!

Particularly if they have slippery hands!

[emma25]

Still not sure what that is...

[Blackcat]

Originally posted by emma25
Still not sure what that is...

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The meaning could be misconstued, but here`s one of those tossers.