Some have claimed that the Tailteann Games in ancient Ireland were the predecessors of the Greek games, which are thought to have started as early as 700 BC. The date of the founding of the ...

Incredible images from the Tailteann Games, the ancient Irish predecessor to the Olympics Hugely popular in the country up until 1600 BC, an attempt was made to start up the tradition once more in ...

The Tailteann Games, also known as Aonach Tailteann, was a festival held at Tara, Co Meath from 632BC until the last record of the event in 1168AD —just before the ‘English invasion’ of 1169.

Based on the ancient Tailteann Games, held in Tara, between 632 BC and a last recorded reference in 1168, the revival was much influenced by the growing success of the modern Olympics, ...

The ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC when the Tailteann Games had already had 1,053 annual celebrations. Yet we Irish have virtually ignored one of the most prestigious and celebrated events ...

Long before the Olympics, there were the Tailteann Games, which the ancient Irish held around 1,800 BC. At the first recorded Olympic Games in 760 BC, there was only one event: a footrace.

"In ancient Ireland, our athletic and sporting prowess was celebrated every summer by the staging of the Tailteann Games, a festival that some scholars date as far back as 1600BC." The Tailteann ...

When they are displaying the Olympic Torch through O'Connell Street en route to the London festival this summer, it would be an appropriate gesture to pay some sort of tribute to a much more ...

Some nationalists even claimed they were the inspiration for the ancient Greek Olympics, although those Games started earlier. The revival of hurling and other traditional Irish sports under the ...

The Tailteann Games, the ancient Irish sporting festival once celebrated each summer, which some scholars reckon was first staged near Tara in 1829 BC, ...

And the Tailteann Games duly proved to be a remarkable event. When it was held in 1924 it was the biggest sporting event organized across the world in that year, bigger even than that year’s ...