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The top handballers play on a Pro tour in the US. At the moment the top players include the likes of Ireland's Paul Brady, Tony Healy and America's Dave Chapman and Naty Alavarado Jnr.
The game requires unrivalled skill and dexterity and it's "perpetual motion" type action is used to train US astronauts.
I have never, ever heard it called "Gaelic Handball". Always 'Handball' in English, or 'Liathróid Láimhe' in the Irish. Perhaps 'Handball (GAA)' would be a better title? 193.1.172.163 12:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
A supossed webpage about Irish Handball, [1], leads nowhere.
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joc_de_pilota
Basque pilota is commonly known as deriving from the French Jeu de paume. Same for the "Gaelic Handball"? -- Casaforra 09:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
A large list was added. I removed it, as such lists are not usually appropriate for sport articles...possibly if there is a specific championship, they might belong there with sourcing. I can't see it here.- Sinneed 13:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that this article and the articles on American handball and Australian handball are all really about the same sport and that the games played in the US and Australia all originated from the Irish game when they were brought there by Irish immigrants. I think the three articles should be merged into a single article called "Wall handball". There's a precedent for using the name "wall handball" since it appears on the official site of the World Handball Council. I'm not knowledgeable enough to say for sure or not if the rules and history of the sport in the three countries are different enough to justify there being three articles for them, though. I'd like to know what everyone else thinks. Sky Blu 2 ( talk) 18:35, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
The article says games are played to a set number of points. Is there a set standard? If so, how many points is it? Are the courts covered as is usual in the U.S.? Also, there is no mention of the ball. I assume it is the same as -- or nearly so -- that used in the American game. Is that so? Kdammers ( talk) 06:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Further point of information requested: "All you have to do is hit the ball with or without fulls (depends on location)." My question is... What the heck are "fulls"? OffColfax ( talk) 05:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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OK, after giving it some thought, I strongly feel the three articles [this article and the articles on American handball and Australian handball] should be merged. The handball federations in the three countries interact with each other on a fairly regular basis. There are some variations between the versions played in the three countries, but there is a great deal that is the same, too. Also, the Encyclopædia Britannica has only one article for "handball". I have created a page called Handball (wall game) that everyone can take a look at which attempts to combine the three articles. If there are no objections in the next few weeks, I shall redirect the links to American handball, Gaelic handball and Australian handball to point there. Sky Blu 2 ( talk) 09:18, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi. We have now left it another 4 weeks or so. And, in the last month (as in the last decade) there have been no thoughts or responses in support of a merge. (And, rather, the limited responses that there have been over this extended period, whether from me on the Gaelic handball talk page, from an anon on the American handball talkpage or another anon on the Australian handball talkpage, have advocated against a merge. Likely because, as with the various sports called "football", that may have common ancestry, each type of handball is governed by a different organisation, has different rules, and therefore different/distinct subjects. With each covered as such in its own article.) I have removed the multiple merge tags. It might also be worthwhile closing this thread. Guliolopez ( talk) 23:56, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
"Boys playing handball at a handball court in Ireland in the 1930s" is located at the old school of the Augustinians in New Ross. I attended the school in the 80s. 2001:BB6:23D:1300:3827:FC20:2FFD:1BF0 ( talk) 22:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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The top handballers play on a Pro tour in the US. At the moment the top players include the likes of Ireland's Paul Brady, Tony Healy and America's Dave Chapman and Naty Alavarado Jnr.
The game requires unrivalled skill and dexterity and it's "perpetual motion" type action is used to train US astronauts.
I have never, ever heard it called "Gaelic Handball". Always 'Handball' in English, or 'Liathróid Láimhe' in the Irish. Perhaps 'Handball (GAA)' would be a better title? 193.1.172.163 12:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
A supossed webpage about Irish Handball, [1], leads nowhere.
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joc_de_pilota
Basque pilota is commonly known as deriving from the French Jeu de paume. Same for the "Gaelic Handball"? -- Casaforra 09:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
A large list was added. I removed it, as such lists are not usually appropriate for sport articles...possibly if there is a specific championship, they might belong there with sourcing. I can't see it here.- Sinneed 13:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that this article and the articles on American handball and Australian handball are all really about the same sport and that the games played in the US and Australia all originated from the Irish game when they were brought there by Irish immigrants. I think the three articles should be merged into a single article called "Wall handball". There's a precedent for using the name "wall handball" since it appears on the official site of the World Handball Council. I'm not knowledgeable enough to say for sure or not if the rules and history of the sport in the three countries are different enough to justify there being three articles for them, though. I'd like to know what everyone else thinks. Sky Blu 2 ( talk) 18:35, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
The article says games are played to a set number of points. Is there a set standard? If so, how many points is it? Are the courts covered as is usual in the U.S.? Also, there is no mention of the ball. I assume it is the same as -- or nearly so -- that used in the American game. Is that so? Kdammers ( talk) 06:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Further point of information requested: "All you have to do is hit the ball with or without fulls (depends on location)." My question is... What the heck are "fulls"? OffColfax ( talk) 05:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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OK, after giving it some thought, I strongly feel the three articles [this article and the articles on American handball and Australian handball] should be merged. The handball federations in the three countries interact with each other on a fairly regular basis. There are some variations between the versions played in the three countries, but there is a great deal that is the same, too. Also, the Encyclopædia Britannica has only one article for "handball". I have created a page called Handball (wall game) that everyone can take a look at which attempts to combine the three articles. If there are no objections in the next few weeks, I shall redirect the links to American handball, Gaelic handball and Australian handball to point there. Sky Blu 2 ( talk) 09:18, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi. We have now left it another 4 weeks or so. And, in the last month (as in the last decade) there have been no thoughts or responses in support of a merge. (And, rather, the limited responses that there have been over this extended period, whether from me on the Gaelic handball talk page, from an anon on the American handball talkpage or another anon on the Australian handball talkpage, have advocated against a merge. Likely because, as with the various sports called "football", that may have common ancestry, each type of handball is governed by a different organisation, has different rules, and therefore different/distinct subjects. With each covered as such in its own article.) I have removed the multiple merge tags. It might also be worthwhile closing this thread. Guliolopez ( talk) 23:56, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
"Boys playing handball at a handball court in Ireland in the 1930s" is located at the old school of the Augustinians in New Ross. I attended the school in the 80s. 2001:BB6:23D:1300:3827:FC20:2FFD:1BF0 ( talk) 22:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)