Erin go Bragh GAA
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| Founded: | 1986 | |
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| County: | Dublin | |
| Nickname: | the braghs | |
| Colours: | Green and White | |
| Grounds: | Hunters Run, Hazelbury Park, St. Catherines Park | |
| Coordinates: | 53°24′04.06″N 6°25′40.71″W / 53.4011278°N 6.4279750°WCoordinates: 53°24′04.06″N 6°25′40.71″W / 53.4011278°N 6.4279750°W | |
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Erin go Bragh GAA are a Dublin-based Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Clonee, Littlepace/Castaheaney/Ongar district in Dublin 15. The club currently field 1 teams in junior football (AFL11 North County and Junior E Championship), 1 junior hurling team (AHL 8 and Junior E Championship) and 1 camogie team. They also have a boys and girls juvenile section fielding from Under 8-minor in football, hurling and camogie. There is also a club of the same name based in Warwickshire, England.
1887-1917
The name Erin go Bragh (meaning "Ireland forever") in Dublin GAA goes back as far as 1887. The club was founded in 1887 in Clonsilla. It was one of 120 clubs affiliated in Dublin in 1888. William Rogers was listed as club secretary, Paddy Dunne was captain and Laurence Warren vice-captain of the football team. Tommy Murphy, a blacksmith originally from Kildare, was captain of the hurling team with L. Rooney vice captain. The team played their games in a field owned by Paddy Dunne competing until 1890 where sadly like many GAA clubs in Dublin at the time it disbanded.
The club name is rarely found afterward but was re-organised on several occasions. The club competed in the Sunday Junior Football League from 1904 to 1909. The name of the club was often misspelt in results and fixtures section of papers, most commonly as Eire go bragh and at other times as Erin go Brath. The club had two football teams, one in the Junior B Division and the second in an Under Junior Division in 1905 and 1906. Erin go Bragh were Junior league runners up in 1906 defeating Stars of Erin at Jones Road (now Croke Park)for the runners up medals. Re organisation of the league structures in 1907 meant that the club's first team competed in the Intermediate Division and their second team in the Junior C Division. Erin go Bragh was one of ten clubs with representation in an inter-league Dublin junior football team who played Cork in a challenge at Jones Road in 1907. Thomas C. Murphy of Erin go Bragh was the first ever Dublin inter-league captain and Stephen Lynch also played for Dublin against Cork and later Louth. Other Erin go Bragh players to have played on the Dublin inter-league team were Hennessey (first name unknown) and Francis Scully, originally from Kildare. The club competed until 1909, when it suddenly disbanded and despite efforts to revive the club in 1910, Erin go Bragh remained absent from the field of play until 1917.
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