The Gaelic wars

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Will Gaa triumph? Will the Flames eliminate GAA from our minds forever? Let's read and see!

Ella ran over and asked Joe and just in time too, as he was about to leave the pitch. ‘’Joe, Joe wait!’’ shouted Ella loudly. Luckily, she got his attention before he left the pitch. Joe got out of his car and said, "Girls why are you still here is there something wrong?" "Yes, there is something wrong and we need your help." Joe shivered in fear, ‘’What’s wrong is someone hurt?" ‘’ No not at all, no one is hurt, but inside we really are hurt because today when I was in school my teacher Ms. Gibbins to me that GAA was an amateur organisation and that GAA Sports are not played in every country like soccer and rugby etc. We want to make a difference to change the world and make GAA a national sport in every country all over the world. Do you agree with this Joe?’’ "Yes, of course, I agree. I've been trying to do that for years but with no ideas. We need a plan.’’ That night Ella and her friends Sophie, Lilly, Juile, Emma and Kaytlin had a sleepover and to make it even better Joe was Sophie's dad, so he was there to help. Joe and the girls made posters and set up a petition on change.org

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"Now by the way, these were just some of the countries fighting in the war, but these countries were the only ones fighting in Ireland. The other countries were just for backup in case another country failed. in Ireland, the English were actually attacking all the GAA clubs and turning them into soccer clubs. They basically made all the women and children play soccer and all the men over 18 had to fight in The English, French and Spanish army. (For short we'll call them the Flames and we'll call Ireland the Shamrocks.) If anyone refused to follow the Flames' rules they would be sent to the kickballer which is basically a machine that you stand in and&nbsp;a hard ball would get&nbsp;flung at your head until you died. But even though these camps were nowhere near as bad as the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two, they were definitely in the Top Ten of the world's most dangerous and brutal prison camps.

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‘’Of course, I know what it is! You just hit a ball with a stick!’’ said a man from the Flames' trench. ‘’No, it’s not just that. There's a lot more than that&nbsp;hurling it’s mostly about bringing people together and winning matches and possibly winning in Crock Park so please for Ireland give Gaa a try.’’ ‘’Fine!’’ Then at that very moment, there was a truce made that GAA could be played around the world as an international sport in every country. They called it The Sixth of January Truce and from that day on every country around the world played GAA and has never looked back since.&nbsp;

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It will now be played globally. 6th of January 2019

 But life went on. Soon after, every GAA camp in Ireland had been terrorized, the Flames decided to end the war in the trenches. The flames thought this would be the end of the war. Months passed. It was now the twenty-first of December and Christmas was in the air. At around two o' clock, it started to snow and not just any snow, it was the worst snow Ireland had ever seen. Then there was silence in the air and everyone started singing, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas!" but only for about twenty minutes and that was the only Christmas they got the snow. It got worse and many people died.

On the sixth of January, an old man stepped out of the Shamrock trench and walked over to the Flame trench. He stood there with his hands in the air. Everyone thought he was crazy. The people in the Flame trench laughed. Then the man started to talk. He said, "Well Flames, is this really what it's come to? Fighting over a sport. Did we fight with you when we let you bring soccer, rugby, and many other sports to Ireland? So could you just let us bring GAA into yours? It really brings us together and it will bring you together too. Do you even know what hurling is?’’&nbsp;

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Ella. Ella was from Dublin but moved to Galway when she was three years old. At a young age, Ella fell in love with sports she played snooker, soccer, basketball, and hockey but her favorite sports were the sports in the GAA. 

That evening when Ella went to Gaelic, she told all her friends what she had heard in school that day. She thought that that was bad, but her own friends knew about this terrible thing and didn't think to tell her. "Why&nbsp;didn't you tell me about this, guys?"&nbsp; exclaimed Ella angrily. ‘’We didn't think you’d care and even if you did, we couldn’t do anything about it. We're just kids and we don’t have the power to change the world."&nbsp; ‘’Maybe you're right. Maybe we are just kids. Maybe we're not rich but we're Irish and we're proud of it so who's with me?" ‘’Me!’’ ‘’Me!’’ ‘’Me!’’ All the girls were in. They were going to make GAA a national sport NOT JUST IN IRELAND BUT ACROSS THE WORLD.&nbsp;

The Gaelic War Chapter 2 They read some of the emails. One read, "No way! GAA sports are so bad and they will never be allowed to be played internationally. We want to declare war in the next twenty-four hours, if you don’t stop this nonsense." But Ella and her friends didn't stop, they were going to fight the war from start to finish. They were proud to be Irish and they were not going to be told what to do by anyone because they were not Dutch, English or French they were Irish, and they were proud of it.&nbsp;

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The idea of the petition was so people in Ireland could hold a protest and be awahair that Gaa is not played around the world the girls wanted to get over 20000 but the next morning when joe and the girls opened the computer, they had only had 12 signatures and they were only from the girls, Joe and a few other family members but twelve signatures was not enough. But the girls did not give up they got their posters and hung them up all over Galway city they even went to Dublin and stuck a few around Crock Park Now you might think it's an awful long way just to hang posters but if you want justice you have to put in the work but while they were there, they got to see Damien Comer score a goal or two Up Galway that night when the girls got back to sophies hose it was way too late for the girls to go home so they&nbsp; had another sleep over but suddenly that night Ella got a great idea she wanted to send a letter/Email to all the clubs in Ireland to ask them to sign our petition&nbsp; and if they agreed with their plan so before they went to bed Joe and the girls made up a letter and sent it to every club in Ireland now I mean soccer clubs rugby clubs every club you can think&nbsp; of and not just the Gaa clubs.&nbsp;

The idea of the petition was so people in Ireland could hold a protest and be aware that GAA is not played around the world the girls wanted to get over 20000 signatures but the next morning when Joe and the girls opened the computer, they had only had 12 signatures and they were only from the girls, Joe and a few other family members. Twelve signatures were not enough. But the girls did not give up. They got their posters and hung them up all over Galway city and they even went to Dublin and stuck a few around Croke Park. Now you might think it's an awful long way just to hang posters but if you want justice you have to put in the work! While they were there, they got to see Damien Comer score a goal or two. Up Galway! That night when the girls got back to Sophie's house it was way too late for the girls to go home so they had another sleepover. Suddenly that night Ella got a great idea; she wanted to send a letter/email to all the clubs in Ireland to ask them to sign their petition. So before they went to bed Joe and the girls composed a letter and sent it to every club in Ireland, even soccer clubs, rugby clubs, every club you can think of, and not just the GAA clubs.&nbsp;

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 It was the first of January 2018 it started as a perfectly normal day, but Ella did not know of the adventures that she and her friends were about to witness that week. That morning when Ella was in school, she happened to ask her teacher about GAA. Her teacher told her that GAA stood for Gaelic Athletic Association. She also said Gaelic and other GAA sports were amateur sports and they were the only national sports in Ireland.

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The next morning, the girls got both good news and really really really bad news. They got an email from the GAA clubs in Northern Ireland that agreed with their plan. They also got emails from the other GAA clubs saying they also agreed with their plan but they also got nasty emails from the soccer and rugby clubs. They were not happy about it at all. They said that if the girls didn't take down the posters they were going to join up with England and the other countries to declare war on Ireland and ban GAA forever.

The girls wanted to hold a protest, but they were too young, so they needed someone in higher places. Then Kaytlyn, Ellas's friend got an idea. We could ask Joe our trainer. He loves GAA and would do anything for it.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The next day it started. All the GAA clubs and the girls got ready to fight and so did the soccer clubs. That evening the war commenced but instead of the old trenches the Irish used Coke Park, but they covered it in wire and mud just to make it look the part. Everyone was ready to fight but nothing happened. Hours passed and not even a small bomb was fired so everyone grew suspicious. That’s when Joe said, "Why we were all working and wasting our time on this thing making it look the part England struck us right in the back when we weren’t looking, they must be attacking silently’." "I think you are right but where could the Spanish, English, and French be?"

All the girls and even Joe lost hope and were getting their coats on to take down the posters but then suddenly Ella got up from the couch. "What are you doing?" she said. "Taking down the posters!" they said. "Wait girls, when we do badly in a match do we give up? No, we fight and Joe, when you lose your car keys do you call your wife? No, you find them yourself! So we are going to fight this battle too. We can do this! Go, team! Well, we don’t have a team name yet. We're going to work on that, but we can do this are you in or what?’’ "Yeah!" "Yeah!" So that’s when it all began.&nbsp;

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