Year
1884
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)
- 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)
- 1884: GAA founded; handball included (GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)). Source: GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)
- 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), 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)
- 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)
- 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), 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, 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, p. 1