Croke Park
| Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, in which the national games of hurling and Gaelic football are played. Within the grounds is a handball alley, a four-walled enclosure for the third of Ireland's national games. The park is capable of accommodating 90,000. |
| At Croke Park on 21 November 1920 (‘Bloody Sunday’), during the Anglo-Irish war of independence, British paramilitary forces known as Black and Tans opened fire on players and spectators during a game of Gaelic football, killing 12 and wounding many others. This atrocity was in retaliation for the killing earlier the same day of 14 British agents by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). |
| The stadium was named after Archbishop Croke, who founded the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in 1884. |
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