A sliotar (or sliothar) is a hard ball about the size of a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together. Sometimes called a 'puck', it resembles an American baseball with more pronounced stitching. It is used in the Gaelic sports of hurling and camogie. Download high resolution version (1437x1003, 969 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1437x1003, 969 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hurley may refer to: // Geographical locations In the United Kingdom: Hurley, a place in the county of Berkshire. ... Gaelic games are the native sports of Ireland: principally Hurling, Gaelic Football and Camogie. ... For the Cornish sport of hurling, see Hurling the Silver Ball. ... Camogie (in Irish, CamógaÃocht) is a Celtic team sport, the female variant of hurling. ...
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Before his improvements the ball had the following general characteristics:
Non-uniform: Tended to lose shape during play. Poor manufacturing produced inconsistent shapes
Heavier: Minimum weight of 7 ounces as prescribed by GAA rules
Cumbersome: Large horse-hair packed ball tended to lose shape during play
Non water-resistant: Ball tended to become soggy during wet play
Low-visibility: Brown ball tended to "get lost" against Cusack stand (constructed in 1937)
McAuliffe made the following changes: GAA redirects here. ...
High-standard: Cork core, 2 piece pigskin with lip stitching
Sure-flight: Maintains shape over course of game leading to safer play
High-visibility: Hard-wearing white tanned pigskin impervious to grass stains
Lighter: Weight of approximately 3.5 ounces - about half the original
Water-resistent: Does not become heavy in wet weather leading to consistent handling
Given these changes, faster playing surfaces and fitter players hurling was transformed into the modern high-scoring game loved today.
Hurling, traditional Irish field sport in which a ball, called a sliotar, is caught on a hurley, or stick, and carried, or hurled into the...
Sliotar is a three piece band based in Dublin playing traditional music.
A sliotar (or sliothar - may derive from Irish sliabh, meaning mountain and thar meaning across) is a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two...
However, as GAA followers will well know sliotar is the name for a hurling ball and the band so ascribed is a trio consisting of Dubliner Ray MacCormac (whistles, pipes and vocals) now relocated to Clare, percussionist Des Gorevan from County Sligo, and the Finnish guitarist, bouzouki player and singer J.P. Kallio.
Sliotar’s line-up provides an interesting variation on the standard group format and is reflected by the lightness of tracks such as the opening Dan O’Keeffe’s/Sweet Marie/The Yellow Wattle, with McCormac’s whistles to the fore.
Sliotar can certainly spot a good tune and there are plenty of examples here, including the rarely played Australian Waters, associated with the Teelin fiddler Jimmy Lyons, and the excellent hornpipe Johnny Cope, while Ray McCormac’s own composition, the slow air Eileen’s Life, displays the breadth of his piping skills.
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