North American GAA
| Irish: | Meiriceá Thuaidh | |
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| County colours: | Red, white, blue | |
| Ground(s): | Gaelic Park - Chicago, IL Irish Cultural Center - Boston, MA Limerick Field Complex - Philadelphia, PA Páirc na nGael - San Francisco, CA |
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The United States Gaelic Athletic Association (USGAA) administers Gaelic games in the United States. The board is also responsible for the American teams in the United States.
Hurling and Gaelic football have been played in North America ever since Irish immigrants began landing on North American shores. The earliest games of hurling in North America were played in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1788, and there are records of football being played in Hyde Park (now the site of the Civic Center) in San Francisco as early as the 1850s. There are established clubs in the cities that traditionally have a large Irish population, such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston.
When the North American county board was formed it included Canadian clubs in its area of control. However these clubs are now under the control of the Canadian county board
In recent years, hurling has started to enjoy support in several other U.S. cities, as evidenced by the establishment of the Milwaukee Hurling Club in 1995 and later the Twin Cities Hurling Club (MN). Other clubs include the Indianapolis Hurling Club, the St. Louis Gaelic Athletic Club, the Denver Gaels, the Greenville Gaels, the Orlando Hurling Club and the Seattle Gaels. Hurling is also starting to gather support at the club level at some universities, such as at Purdue University and Stanford University since 2005, California State University, Monterey Bay since 2006, and UC Berkeley since 2008.
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