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At the 1930 British Empire Games, the first staging of what is now the Commonwealth Games, a single team represented the entire island of Ireland. Northern Ireland has been represented by its own team since the 1934 games. That year there were also competitors from the Irish Free State. The state had no representation at the 1938 games, and by the time of the the next games in 1950 it was ineligible due to the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. ==1930 games== The organising committee for the 1930 games in Hamilton, Ontario sent an invitation to the National Athletic and Cycling Association (NACA), and offered to pay $1000 towards travel expenses. It also invited the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA), which declined in order to concentrate on the 1932 Olympics. The NACA executive decided to accept, on condition that the team be designated "Ireland" rather than "Irish Free State".〔 The NACA was affiliated to the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) and regarded itself as the governing body for athletics in the whole of Ireland, although a separate Northern Ireland Amateur Athletic, Cycling and Cross Country Association (NIAAA) was affiliated to the Amateur Athletic Association of England (AAA). NIAAA athletes, including some born in the Free State, were included on the AAA's England team. The NACA's acceptance was controversial among its more militant Irish nationalist supporters antipathetic to British imperialism. The President of the Gaelic Athletic Association publicly dissociated himself from the NACA, and the Crokes club of one of the selected athletes voted to disband in protest. The NACA made a shortlist of athletes whom it would fund for the trip to Canada if they could secure the necessary time off work. The NACA was careful to include an athlete from Northern Ireland to assert its all-island jurisdiction.〔 The English AAA offered to pay the expenses of hammer thrower Bill Britton on condition that he and Pat O'Callaghan take part in a British Empire athletics team to compete in a challenge match against the United States immediately after the Empire Games.〔 The NACA rejected this offer. In the event, O'Callaghan went to the 1930 International University Games in Germany, making him unavailable for the Empire Games. Neither Britton nor any other Irish athlete was in the Empire challenge selection. Ultimately four Irish-based athletes travelled. They were joined by a fifth, P. "Jack" O'Reilly, who was already living in Canada; O'Reilly wrote to the NACA asking to be nominated for the marathon and offering to pay his own way.〔〔 The Irish team's ship was delayed by fog and the team missed the opening ceremony, except for O'Reilly, who carried the flag. The flag was not the Irish tricolour, considered by unionists as specific to the Free State; instead it showed the coat of arms of Ireland, a gold harp.〔See third flag from the right in photo captioned "Flags of competing nations ready for presentation to team managers": (Hamilton Public Library — PreVIEW Image Database ); Add new filter condition > Record Name Matches > 32022189115567.jpg > Is Identical〕 The team colour was green. 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「Ireland at the British Empire Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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