The handball Alley down at the beach road in Clifden before it was demolished in April – May 2018. Copyright © 2020 History Publications Ltd, Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland | Tel. Architecture: Handball alleys Published in 20th Century Social Perspectives, 20th-century / Contemporary History, Features, Issue 3 (May/Jun 2009), Volume 17. which aims to capture the individual histories of Irish
The introduction of high enclosing walls resulted in such gatherings becoming more formalised and, on occasions, more covert. The now demolished 1950s handball alley at Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny (top), is a typical example. Handball & Racquetball to Martial Arts, Pool, Darts, Cards, Board Games, Dance Classes, Keep Fit. Handball Alley, Rugby, Warwickshire. St. Josephs Avenue, Off Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3. cpcandhc@gmail.com. Kilfane Handball Club is located in Kilfane, near Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. Personal Histories is an initiative by History Ireland,
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Powered by. At the ball alleys, some strategically placed at crossroads in the open countryside, generations happily fraternized. Handball is now mainly an indoor sport and those examples still in good repair are used for playing handball primarily by the Traveller community, if at all. Accepted formats for showcasing may vary from online talks or exhibitions, to a video, podcast, slideshow presentation or blog, to media coverage, a dedicated website or moderated social media account, or by means of small, restricted social gatherings, which comply with official public health advice. Handball is known to have been played in Ireland from at least the mid-1500s. Drumkeerin Handball Sports & Leisure Limited, Leitrim. While royal tennis was played in purpose-built courts from the early 1500s, handball, like pelota (Basque region) and palla (Tuscany), was predominantly played in appropriated spaces, such as religious ruins, vacant RIC barracks, walls of bridges and walls of hillside limekilns, until the early twentieth century. To renew a subscription please login first. Comprising two short side walls on either side of the playing wall, the early examples signalled the introduction of side-wall play into what was previously a one-wall game, a practice credited to the playing of handball on royal tennis courts in London throughout the 1700s. The story of Clontarf, from battleground to garden suburb, Darkest Dublin: The story of the Church Street disaster and a pictorial account of the slums of Dublin in 1913. Handball alleys are representative of Ireland's social history. Gaelic handball (known in Ireland simply as handball; Irish: liathróid láimhe) is a sport where players hit a ball with a hand or fist against a wall in such a way as to make a shot the opposition cannot return, and that may be played with two (singles) or four players (doubles). Its origins are likely shared with the contemporaneous games of real or royal tennis, palla, pelota and Eton fives. M / 085 7876734 Webmaster Login. Some were drawn by the magic and noise of a game which has deep Irish roots.