Paul Rouse: Croke Park rodeos and hurling on Boston Common — our deep sporting links with America

A new exhibition at Croke Park will sketch out the countries' intertwined story

RTÉ broadcaster Micheál O’Hehir commentating on the 1947 All-Ireland football final between Cavan and Kerry in New York's Polo Grounds. Picture: GAA collection

The launch next week of a major new exhibition at the GAA Museum in Croke Park is an opportunity to reassess the Irish relationship with America.

With the current deeply unsettling shift in American politics, it is a mostly timely reminder of the deep ties between the ordinary people of both countries.