The Hurling Club, Buenos Aires
The Hurling Club in Buenos Aires has been an institution within the Irish-Argentine community for over 100 years and can trace its roots all the way back to 1922 and the founding of the Irish Hurling Federation of Argentina.
Hurling was played regularly by Club members up until the outbreak of the Second World War, when it became impossible to import hurleys from Ireland.
Today the Club is successful in a variety of sports but its Irish origins remain central to its identity, and it is a central hub for the roughly 500,000 Argentines who have Irish ancestry.
It has active men’s and women’s Gaelic Football teams and has sent groups to participate in four GAA World Games competitions to date. The Gaelic Games traditions in Argentina more broadly, have helped support developments across the region with new GAA clubs emerging in Chile, Colombia and Paraguay in recent years.