Editing Hurling (section)

===South Africa===
Soldiers who served in the [[Irish commandos|Irish Brigade]] during the [[Anglo-Boer War]] are believed to have played the game on the [[veld]]t. Immigrants from [[County Wicklow]] who had arrived to work in the explosives factory in [[Umbogintwini]], [[KwaZulu-Natal]] formed a team c. 1915–16. A major burst of immigration in the 1920s led to the foundation of the ''Transvaal Hurling Association'' in [[Johannesburg]] in 1928. Games were traditionally played in a pitch on the site of the modern-day Johannesburg Central Railway Station every [[Easter Sunday]] after [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]].

In 1932, a South African hurling team sailed to Ireland to compete in the [[Tailteann Games (Irish Free State)|Tailteann Games]], where they carried a banner donated by a convent of Irish nuns in [[Cape Town]]. On their arrival, they were personally received by the [[Taoiseach]] (Prime Minister) at the time, [[Éamon de Valera]].

South African hurling continued to prosper until the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], which caused immigration from Ireland to cease and made it impossible to import equipment. Games of hurling and [[Gaelic football]] were occasionally sponsored by the [[List of Christian Brothers schools|Christian Brothers schools]] in [[Boksburg]] and [[Pretoria]] well into the 1950s. Both games have all but ceased to be played.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Seamus J.|last=King|title=The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad|year=1998|isbn=978-0-9533513-0-5|pages=147–151|publisher=S.J. King }}</ref>