Status
Status: ActiveThe Hurling Club traces its roots to 1922 and the founding of the Irish Hurling Federation of Argentina. Hurling was played regularly until the 1940s, when hurleys could no longer be imported, and the club still lists it among its sports alongside hockey, rugby and Gaelic football. Its men's and women's Gaelic football teams play weekly, and the club sent teams to the GAA World Games in 2015 (Abu Dhabi, where Argentina won the Men's Shield), 2016 (Dublin), 2019 (Waterford) and 2023 (Derry).
La Nación's centenary feature reported about 1,700 members, many not of Irish descent, main grounds opened on 25 May 1948, an annex with a regulation 150-metre Gaelic football pitch, rugby played since 1941 and a centenary book. Its president, Gastón López Soler, is the first without an Irish surname. The club celebrates St Patrick's Day and has direct ties with the Embassy of Ireland. Ulster GAA twinned with Argentina in 2018 after a coach from the club visited Tyrone, and Ulster GAA's coach education manager visited in December 2025. The club is at Av. Coronel de San Martín 5415, Hurlingham.
Published sources give different versions. Here is each one with its source, and the wording we use.
When the hurling federation and the Hurling Club were founded
A Buenos Aires Hurling Club was formed in 1900
Source: Wikipedia, Hurling Club (leads only; verify), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)A 1918 rulebook of the Federación Argentina de Hurling is displayed at Croke Park
Source: GAA Museum, Croke Park, Argentinian hurling rulebook (undated), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)The Argentine Hurling Federation was founded in August 1920, and the clubs were reorganised as the Hurling Club in 1946
Source: Seamus J. King and Paul Darby, Becoming Irlandés: hurling and Irish identity in Argentina, Sport in Society 10:3 (May 2007), via seamusjking.com, May 2007(opens in a new tab)The club's origin is August 1922, when Irish immigrants created the Federación Argentina de Hurling
Source: La Nación, Hurling Club rebosa de identidad (2 Mar 2023), 2 March 2023(opens in a new tab)The club was set up in 1922 under its first president, James Patrick Harte
Source: Arminta Wallace, Buenos Aires hurling: not enough sticks, too many fights, Irish Times (1 Jul 2017), 1 July 2017(opens in a new tab)The Hurling Club was established in 1925
Source: GAA.ie, GAA breaking new ground in final frontier of South America (11 Dec 2025), 11 December 2025(opens in a new tab)We say: The Hurling Club traces its roots to 1922, by its own account
When regular hurling stopped
The First World War cut off ash hurleys
Source: GAA Museum, Croke Park, Argentinian hurling rulebook (undated), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)Hurling was played regularly until the 1940s, when hurleys could no longer be imported
Source: ireland.ie, Growing the game: GAA clubs in South America (undated; describes Nov 2025), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)We say: Faded as imported hurleys ran out in the first half of the twentieth century
Usually around 1 March 2027; this year's date is not yet announced.
Hurlingham
The Hurling Club in Hurlingham holds a St Patrick's Day party. The Irish Government page that records it is undated, so no recent edition is confirmed.
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