GAA | Heritage Week 2025
The shadows of local children from Galway, Robert Noone, brothers, Conor and Cian Geoghegan and Danny Morrissey, as they practice their hurling skills
The GAA is proud to participate in the National Heritage Week festival which officially runs from August 16 – 24.
GAA Clubs, by their very existence, are promoting Ireland’s intrinsic heritage through the playing of our national games and the promotion of our language and our culture through Scór.
The theme for Heritage Week 2025 is ‘Exploring Our Foundations’ and invites us ‘to delve into the building blocks of our heritage; not just the structures, but the landscapes and cultural activities that have shaped us.’
At national level the GAA will participate in Heritage Week with a special focus on the clubs that have signed up to restart, revive or in some cases resurrect hurling and camogie in their communities.
This project received funding through a joint initiative by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and the National Monuments Service to support practices inscribed on Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage is managed by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and can be viewed at https://nationalinventoryich.ccs.gov.ie/ . The National Monuments Service is delighted to support this initiative that highlights the strong relationship between tangible and intangible heritage.
If you are a GAA Club who wishes to get involved in supporting the National Heritage Week - visit this section of our website for further details: https://www.gaa.ie/article/gaa-supporting-heritage-week-2025
We will have more GAA news on our event page here - stay tuned!
To get the latest news on all the projects across National Heritage Week, view the links below: