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The Sociogensis and Development of the GAA: Centralising and Decentralising Tensions

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This chapter explains the formation of the GAA in the context of changing social interdependences at various tiers of social integration. It documents and explains the subsequent oscillations between greater centralisation and decentralisation in the organisational structure of the GAA. This dynamic was connected to the changing structure of intra- and inter-organisational interdependences, the functional composition of many of the GAA’s organisational units, and the strength of the identification and we-feelings towards particular social units.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Northern Football Union of Ireland was also formed by several clubs in some of the counties in the north of the country. These Unions amalgamated in 1878 (Garnham, 1999), becoming the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) in 1880.

  2. 2.

    County committees are more commonly known as county boards nowadays. We use the term county committees rather than county boards as this was the term used in the early years.

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Connolly, J., Dolan, P. (2020). The Sociogensis and Development of the GAA: Centralising and Decentralising Tensions. In: Gaelic Games in Society. Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31699-0_4

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