# 1884

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9 dated items in the record for 1884.

## Dated items

- **by 1884**: GAA Handball's own history: handball 'played for over a thousand years', the 1527 Statute of Galway against ball games at town walls, a Ballinrobe court of 1776, alleys cataloged from the 1700s (GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 Source: [GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/about/gaa-handball/history)
- **1884**: The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded and handball is 'officially included as one of the sports to be promoted' (GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)): the end of the unorganised game. Source: [GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/about/gaa-handball/history)
- **1884**: GAA founded; handball included (GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)). Source: [GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/about/gaa-handball/history)
- **1884-1903**: The 28 GAA rules are adopted some time in this window (H-13): Gaelic Rules (1903), first printed in America in Deshong/Egan 1903 as 'Gaelic Rules'; the same setting in 1914 and 1915, reset for Spalding 1923 ('short wall', H-55). Source: [Michael Egan, Handball and How to Play It (1903)](https://www.loc.gov/item/04000015/), p. 33
- **by 1884**: GAA Handball's own history page gives the game's antiquity in Ireland (a 1527 Galway statute against ball games at the town walls; a Ballinrobe court of 1776). Source: [GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/about/gaa-handball/history)
- **1884**: The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded with handball among the sports it promotes (secondary: GAA Handball's history page). Source: [GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/about/gaa-handball/history)
- **1884**: Ireland: the GAA founds itself with handball among its sports; its 28 rules (Gaelic Rules (1903)) are 'the rules of the Gaelic Athletic Association of Ireland'. Source: [Michael Egan, Handball and How to Play It (1903)](https://www.loc.gov/item/04000015/), p. 33
- **12 March 1884**: Four-handed match at Sweeny's court, 35th St: Casey and P. H. Smith (St Louis) v Dunne and Courtney (Brooklyn), best 3 of 5 Source: [The Sun (New York), 13 March 1884, p. 3](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1884-03-13/ed-1/?sp=3), p. 3
- **9 October 1884**: 'Championship match' Alderman James Dunne v Bernard McQuade, and exhibition Casey v Dunne, Sweeny's court; return match 16 Oct Source: [The Sun (New York), 10 October 1884, p. 1](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1884-10-10/ed-1/?sp=1), p. 1

## Neighboring years

- Previous year with a page: [1883](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1883.md)
- Next year with a page: [1885](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1885.md)
- Part of [the 1880s](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1880s.md)
- [All years and decades](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years.md)

## Corrections

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