Interesting. I didn't know that. Though I knew it came from somewhere in the
UK.
The hockey fans seem to also have adopted at least two forms of hurling.
ja
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From: "Tim Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: vancouver riot
> Shinty is a hockey type game played in Scotland, but I remember my mother
> talking about playing shinty in Ireland when she was a girl. I think she
> meant that while the boys played hurling the girls played shinty, which
> wasn't quite so dangerous - something like that. As far as I know shinty
> went to Canada with the gaelic emigrants and became ice hockey, or so I
> heard somewhere.
>
> Tim A.
>
> On 5 Jul 2011, at 13:18, Jim Andrews wrote:
>
>> Shinty? What's that?
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