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The GAA: Founding a Movement focuses on the period 1884-1891and is available as a one hour video podcast in both Irish and English. Historians and teachers discuss the social and political backdrop to the establishment of the GAA in 1884, it’s concentration on athletics and the forces and people who shaped it during those at times difficult and challenging early years of power struggles, in-fighting as it sought to assert itself in Irish life. The podcast is a collaboration between Drumcondra Education Support Centre with the GAA’s History Committee and GAA Communications and is a timely resource given that this period is a compulsory case study on the Leaving Cert history curriculum for 2026 and 2027.

Lords of the Rings: the GAA’s Olympic Story is a new five-part podcast series that looks at the fascinating links between Gaelic games and the Olympics, featuring some of the many players who have won gold, silver and bronze while competing on the biggest stage in world sport. Hosted by award-winning Sunday Times journalist and author Michael Foley and GAA journalist and historian Cian Murphy, they are joined by a panel of experts to look at some of the truly weird and wonderful aspects of the GAA link to the Olympics and recall some of the forgotten heroes who played hurling and football and became some of the greatest athletes in the world. Lords of the Rings: The GAA’s Olympics Story is a podcast available today from gaa.ie, Spotify and usual platforms, produced by Andrew Foley and GAA Digital Manager Niamh Boyle. The views, opinions, and historical interpretations presented in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the GAA or any other organisation mentioned.

Ahead of the Tailteann Cup the GAA hosted a group chat at Croke Park with players gearing up to do battle. Listen here.

The Summer of ’98 is a vivid retelling of one of the most chaotic and colourful GAA seasons of all time. Over seven episodes Michael Foley revisits the story of a summer that ultimately transformed into a passageway for the GAA between one era and another, gathering together the stories and personalities that shaped not just that summer, but the entire age. From the battling Clare hurlers to the soap opera twists that engulfed Offaly, the mould breaking footballers of Kildare and Galway, old rivalries renewed, moments of high controversy powered by emotion scarcely seen before or since, all backdropped by a summer of tragedy and tension in Northern Ireland that impacted every part of the island including the GAA, every last detail joins like a mosaic depicting one of the most important and game-changing years in the GAA’s long history. The Summer of ’98 is written and produced for the GAA by Michael Foley and edited by Andrew Foley.

The Bloodied Field podcast is the story of the terrible events of Bloody Sunday at Croke Park on November 21, 1920 when the crowd at a Gaelic football match were attacked and 14 innocent people never came home. Over eight carefully crafted episodes focusing on the build up, the event and the aftermath, the master storyteller Michael Foley delivers a haunting and moving depiction of this seismic event in Irish and GAA history and remembers the people who were lost. Written and produced by Michael Foley. Edited by Andrew Foley. The Bloodied Field Podcast is a TwoCubes production for the GAA.