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The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ((アイルランド語:Cumann Lúthchleas Gael), (:ˈkʊmˠən̪ˠ ˈl̪ˠuh.xlʲæsˠ ɡeːl̪ˠ) (''CLG'')) is an Irish and international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders. The Association also promotes Irish music and dance, and the Irish language. It has more than five hundred thousand members worldwide,〔 assets in excess of €2.6 billion, and declared total revenues of €94.8 million in 2010, with a total gross profit of €78.5 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The GAA in Ulster )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=sponsorship: A Successful Partnership between the GAA and Guinness )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remarks by President McAleese )〕 Gaelic football and hurling are the most popular activities promoted by the organisation, and the most popular sports in the Republic of Ireland in terms of attendances.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Social Significance of Sport )〕 Gaelic football is also the largest participation sport in Northern Ireland. GAA Handball is the Irish governing body for the sport of handball. 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. Since its foundation in the late 19th century, the Association has grown to become a major influence in Irish sporting and cultural life with considerable reach into communities throughout Ireland and among the Irish diaspora.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ESRI Report: Social and Economic Value of Sport in Ireland )〕 ==Foundation and History== (詳細はHayes' Hotel billiard room to formulate a plan and establish an organisation to foster and preserve Ireland's unique games and athletic pastimes. And so was founded the Gaelic Athletic Association|GAA. The architects and founding members were Michael Cusack of County Clare, Maurice Davin, John K. Bracken, George McCarthy, P.J. Ryan of Tipperary, John Wise-Power, and John McKay. Up to the twentieth century most of the members were farm labourers, small farmers, barmen or shop assistants . But from 1900 onwards a new type of person – those who were now being influenced by the Gaelic League (1893) — joined the movement. They tended to be clerks, school teachers or civil servants. In 1922 it passed over the job of promoting athletics to the National Athletic and Cycling Association〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Athletic Ireland )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaelic Athletic Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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