[Sca-cooks] hurley

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Aeduin and Mobi watched the Western hurlers with much interest, and 
might try to instigate a game down south.  I'm researching it now.  

The differences seem to be:

Hurley is Irish, Shinty is Scots
Hurley is played on the ground, in the air, anywhere;  Shinty is mainly 
on the ground [and the stick is longer - Scots brag!]


Irish and Scots duke it out
http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=410&id=1155452003

Hurley reference in the Tain Bo Cualgne
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T301035/text004.html

Old Hurley sticks and balls
http://www.birthplaceofhockey.com/evolution/ev-equip-pics/pic-hurley-stk-old.html 


Hurley equipment, include foam children's set
http://www.nurisport.fsnet.co.uk/Hurleys.htm

encyclopedia article on Hurley
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Hurley

National shinty org in Scotland
http://shinty.com/

Selene C.

>>In the OED, the earlist reference to Shinty is
>>1771.  
>>
>>Huette
>>