# 1997

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3 dated items in the record for 1997, and 14 championship result rows.

## Dated items

- **1997**: 'Handball Playing Rules', an Irish Handball Council publication from Croke Park cited once in a 2002 bibliography (Handball Playing Rules (1997)). Source: [Internet Archive, full-text search for "hand ball" AND "rules" AND "1886" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://archive.org/)
- **1997**: GAA wallball open Irish nationals from 1997 (Wallball Open Irish Nationals): the one-wall game arrives in the Irish record. Source: [GAA Handball Ireland, wallball nationals roll of honour (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/competitions/rolls-of-honour)
- **1997**: The 47th USHA Four-Wall Nationals are held at the Michigan Athletic Club in 1997, where the pro champions had also won in 1992 Source: [US Handball Association, "Four-Wall National Championships" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)](https://web.archive.org/web/19970131162649/http://www.ushandball.org:80/html_pages/nationals.html)

## Championships held

- [All-Ireland 4-Wall Championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/gaa-all-ireland-4-wall.md)
- [All-Ireland 60x30 Softball Championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/gaa-all-ireland-60x30-softball.md)
- [All-Ireland Hardball Championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/gaa-all-ireland-hardball.md)
- [Queen of the Courts](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/queen-of-the-courts.md)
- [USHA national four-wall handball championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/usha-national-four-wall-championships.md)
- [USHA national one-wall handball championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/usha-national-one-wall-championships.md)
- [USHA national three-wall handball championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/usha-national-three-wall-championships.md)
- [Wallball Open Irish Nationals](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/gaa-wallball-open-irish-nationals.md)

## Neighboring years

- Previous year with a page: [1996](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1996.md)
- Next year with a page: [2005](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/2005.md)
- Part of [the 1990s](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years/1990s.md)
- [All years and decades](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/years.md)

## Corrections

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