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Glen Rovers GAA
Summary
Glen Rovers is a Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Blackpool, Cork, Ireland. The club was founded in 1916 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling. They were Cork senior hurling champions in 2015 and 2016, having won their first title in 26 years in 2015. They retained the championship in 2016, when they beat Erin's Own in the final. Only Blackrock have won more Cork senior hurling championships.
In the early days of the club, its colours were green, white and gold. The Easter Rising and the execution of the leaders took place in the same year the Glen was founded. These events left such an impression on the minds of the Irish public that it was decided to add a black band to the jersey to honour the recently deceased patriots. This distinctive and unique hooped jersey has been used ever since.
The Glen Rovers crest is also unique, and features a modernised Celtic cross with the image of the north side glen in the centre. The crest also features two crossed hurleys.
Hurling had been played in the Blackpool area for some time before the Glen Rovers club was established. Areas like the Commons Road and Thomas Davis Street in particular had fielded teams from time to time. In 1910, a hurling club honouring the Fenian leader Brian Dillon was established at Dillon's Cross. In 1915, the five-year-old club won the county minor hurling championship (minor was open to all ages back then) but due to World War I the winners’ medals were not presented. The following year Dillon's lost to Lisgoold in the county junior hurling championship and controversy arose at this time because the 1915 minor medals had still not been presented. Some of those most affronted decided to leave Dillons and form a new club at the other side of "the Glen". The club, called Glen Rovers GAA, was established late in 1916 and affiliated the following year. The new club was closely linked with the St. Nicholas' Gaelic Football Club which had been established 15 years earlier and was based in the same part of the city.
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