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Revision as of 23:28, 24 August 2005 by Demiurge (talk | contribs) (rv thinly-disguised POV "apparent sectarian atavism")(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Michael Cusack (1847 - 1906) was an Irish teacher and founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Born in Carron, County Clare Cusack became a teacher. He spent some years in the United States, but returned to Ireland and began teaching in Newry, Blackrock College, and Clongowes Wood. He opened the Civil Service Academy, a cramming establishment in Dublin, which prospered and gave him a large income.
Together with Maurice Davin, of Carrick-on-Suir, he called a meeting in Hayes’s Commercial Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary, on November 1, 1884, and founded the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
Davin was elected president and Cusack became its first secretary. Later Archbishop Croke, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt became patrons. Cusack died on November 27, 1906 at the age of 59.
The "Cusack Stand" in Croke Park is named in his honour.
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