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Minute books and dissociated records of Tullamore GAA Club

Two minute books of the Southern Committee outlining fixtures and recording objections from various clubs regarding breaches of rules and other complaints concerning the fielding of teams.

Scrapbook containing typescript essay on history of Ballinamere GAA Club, newspaper cuttings with match reports, original photographs of Ballinamere teams, individual players, and hurling committees,and reports from AGMs.

Accounts for receipts and expenditure, bulk 1909-1914, and resuming in 1936. Contains lists of names of delegates to Leinster Council and details of monies received in membership fees, gate receipts and expenditure incurred through general administration and the hosting of tournaments.

Minute book of North Offaly GAA Sub-committee

Minute book containing minutes of meetings held by Offaly Southern Committee, mainly held in various locations in Birr, detailing election of officers, arrangement of fixtures, decisions on tournament permits, objections raised by clubs in relation to outcomes of matches and other matters. Also contains a letter from the Leinster Council to the Secretary of Offaly GAA, English Hotel, Birr in relation, among other things, to the application of the Parish Rule in the reinstatement of players who were in the British Army. Also includes details of Gaelic Sunday, 5 August 1918, which was organised by the GAA nationwide 'to demonstrate their right to play their games without permit from the English Government authorities.'

Minute book recording the meetings held and decisions taken by the committee of the Tullamore Hurling and Football Club. Decisions included hosting of tournaments for causes such as the Portarlington Lock Out fund, and one for the benefit of member J. Barry who was imprisoned in Belfast Jail. Also details the organisation of concerts and ceilís.

Minute book recording meetings held and decisions taken by the committee of Tullamore GAA Club. Notable for references to the Irish Volunteers and the nationalist movement. While not mentioning the Tullamore Incident of 20 March 1916 directly, there was a proposal, later dropped, to hold a tournament to raise funds for the prisoners involved in the Incident (4 April 1916). This minute book also records the decision, passed unanimously, that the tri-colour jersey be worn by Tullamore club players in both hurling and football (31 May 1917).

Minute book of the South Offaly sub-committee detailing fixtures of junior and senior hurling championships, and schools' league draws. Also records objections from representatives of various clubs in the southern division.