Editing Camogie (section)

===Foundation===
[[File:Camogie Team, Waterford, 17 October 1915.jpg|thumb|A camogie team pictured in Waterford in October 1915]]
[[File:Lil Kirby.jpg|thumb|A camogie game in 1934]]
The name was invented by [[Tadhg Ó Donnchadha|Tadhg Ua Donnchadha]] (Tórna) at meetings in 1903 in advance of the first matches in 1904.<ref>{{cite book| last = Puirséil| first = Pádraig| title = Scéal na Camógaíochta| publisher = [[Camogie Association of Ireland|Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael]]| year = 1984| location = Dublin, Ireland| pages = 64}}</ref> The term camogie is derived from the name of the stick used in the game. Men play hurling using a curved stick called a ''camán'' in Irish. Women in the early camogie games used a shorter stick described by the diminutive form ''camóg''. The suffix -''aíocht'' (originally "uidheacht") was added to both words to give names for the sports: ''camánaíocht'' (which became ''iománaíocht'') and ''camógaíocht''. When the [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] was founded in 1884 the English-origin name "hurling" was given to the men's game. When an organisation for women was set up in 1904, it was decided to anglicise the Irish name ''camógaíocht'' to ''camogie''.<ref name="Moran 2011 460"/>

The experimental rules were drawn up for the female game by [[Máire Ní Chinnéide]], [[Seán (Sceilg) Ó Ceallaigh]], Tadhg Ó Donnchadha and [[Séamus Ó Braonáin]]. The Official Launch of Camogie took place with the first public match between Craobh an Chéitinnigh (Keatings branch of the [[Gaelic League]]) and [[Cúchulainns]] on 17 July at a Feis in Navan. The sport's governing body, the Camogie Association or [[Camogie Association of Ireland|An Cumann Camógaíochta]], was founded in 1905 and re-constituted in 1911, 1923 and 1939. Until June 2010 it was known as Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael.

Máire Ní Chinnéide and Cáit Ní Dhonnchadha, two prominent Irish-language enthusiasts and cultural nationalists, were credited with having created the sport, with the assistance of Ní Dhonnchadha's scholarly brother Tadhg Ó Donnchadha, who drew up its rules. Thus, although camogie was founded by women, and independently run (although closely linked to the GAA), there was, from the outset, a small yet powerful male presence within its administrative ranks. It was no surprise that camogie emanated from the Gaelic League, nor that it would be dependent upon the structures and networks provided by that organisation during the initial expansion of the sport. Of all the cultural nationalist organisations for adults that emerged during the fin de siècle, the Gaelic League was the only one to accept female and male members on an equal footing.<ref>Ríona Nic Congáil “'Looking on for centuries from the side-line': Gaelic Feminism and the rise of Camogie", Éire-Ireland (Spring / Summer 2013): 168–192.[https://www.academia.edu/3324668/Looking_on_for_centuries_from_the_side-line_Gaelic_Feminism_and_the_rise_of_Camogie Gaelic Feminism and the rise of Camogie]</ref> Nonetheless, the creation of camogie was not universally supported - even by women - with leading figures such as president of the Irish Countrywomen's Association and Conradh na Gaeilge member, [[Kit Ahern]] (despite her support of GAA clubs for men) describing camogie as "too strenuous for girls".<ref>[https://www.dib.ie/biography/ahern-catherine-ita-kit-a9624 "Ahern, Catherine Ita ('Kit')"]</ref>