What are some traditional Irish games?

Question

What are some traditional Irish games?

Answer 1

Gaelic football, hurling, camogie are GAA sports. Rugby has been kind of adopted.

Answer 2

Gaelic football, hurling, camogie are GAA sports

Rap door run away...

catch

Hopscotch

ira bash

cops & robbers

Answer 3

Pin the tail on the redhead?

Answer 4

besides the games of Hurley, Gaelic football etc we play who can drink the most Guinness, sometimes I win, but when I don't I don't care. In some places its a traditional weekend sport to throw stones etc at the police, army or each other. You get a prize if you are hit with a rubber bullet.

Answer 5

Well when I was a kid we lived in the middle of nowhere so rapping peoples doors and running away was one of the few sources of amusement lol

Answer 6

hi you

hurling, football, after that it is more or less what anyone else any where in the world would play

Answer 7

Tig (or tag same thing!!)

Tip the can (or 123 again same thing!!)

Hide and seek

Soccer

Football

Hurling

Answer 8

Sports: Gaelic football, Hurley, Camogie, Handball.

Old fashioned traditional games: Horsehoes, Puc fada, Barrow races.

Mostly we just play normal games though. I do love a good game of the pin the tail on the red head. Especially when you use a real live redhead. Boy o boy do they get angry.

Answer 9

Hurling and gaelic football , they are traditional as it gets .

links;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling

        ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_foot...

Answer 10

"pick on the Americans" Kidding - sort of

As others have said, Gaelic football and Hurley - which was adapted in N. America on ice to become the Canadian hockey. Road bowling (bowls) is big in some areas.

Answer 11

lmao at the answer above ^

emmm ....... i actually have no idea, and im an irish teenager so i guess i would know if there was some!! ther is a game called 'IRA bash' and thats irish but i would call it 'traditional' lol. sorry mattee!! :)

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Answer 12

Hurling Gaa