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Footballs Gaelic Connections

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IRISH CABAL FILE — FOOTBALL DIVISION Madden: The Gaelic Skeleton of American Football Every console in America has it installed. What most fans never see is the layer underneath: the game's own ancestor was being played, and fought over, on Irish ground six centuries before there was an NFL. The man who wrote the league's actual constitution was the son of an Irish immigrant. The ownership ledger of half the league traces the same way. The name on the box does too. This isn't a sprinkling of coincidences sitting on top of American football — it's the structure underneath it. 01 — The Name Ó Madáin: The Hound Clan of Galway O'Madden — Gaelic Ó Madáin — is not a borrowed surname. It is the name of a ruling clan inside the medieval kingdom of Uí Maine, seated in what is now southeastern County Galway and parts of County Offaly. The territory had its own name: Síol Anmchadha . The name translates to ...
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Gaelic Guide: A Map of Facts

The Irish & Scottish Fingerprint A reference map of documented Irish and Scottish Gaelic connections across history, culture, power and identity Think about what the average American actually does. They wake up, get in their Ford and drive to McDonald's . They shake McCormick seasoning on their food. They grew up drinking chocolate milk — not knowing an Irish doctor invented it in Jamaica in the 1680s. They pour Jameson on the weekend or crack open a Guinness . The kids are watching Disney — an Irish family's company — and the cartoons were made by a studio where Mc, Mac and O' surnames have dominated the creator tier for sixty years. They flip on Fox News — a Scottish man's channel. The radio is playing Country Music — they think it's as American as it gets. They couldn't know it started as Scots-Irish fiddle music in Appalachia in the 1700s, fused with African rhythm, then had its Gaelic roots quietly erased. On the ...
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