GAA Generations - Teacher Classroom Activity 

What is GAA Generations?
The idea is simple – we are inviting young GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association members aged 12-21 to record on a mobile phone a conversation with ‘One Good Adult’; someone who they look up to and admire in the 55+ age bracket. It could be, for example, a parent/grandparent, a coach, or a teacher, past or present, that saw and nurtured your potential. 

Older participants will also be given the opportunity to quiz their young interviewees on their GAA experiences and how it may have impacted their understanding of who they are.

What’s the purpose of the project?
GAA Generations aims to recruit between 500-1,000 young GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association members who will receive online training in conducting an interview with a person of influence in their life aged 55+. The conversations with their selected ‘One Good Adult’, recorded on a smart phone along with a photo of the participants, will be stored on the GAA’s eLearning platform and published as part of the GAA archive.

For taking part, students will receive a UNESCO Chairs/GAA Youth Researcher Certificate of Participation.

How can they get involved?_
Students who are young GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association members aged 12-21 years (inclusive) and would like to participate in this research project can complete the expression of interest form.

**Applications will require that those Under 18 will have their participation approved by their parents/guardians

How does it work?
STEP 1 - Selected participants will be notified and must be able to participate in an Information Webinar (date TBC)

STEP 2 – Your students complete an online Training Module on the GAA eLearning Platform

STEP 3 – Students identify the person (Age 55+) they will interview and conduct an audio interview approx. 15mins long using their Smartphone

STEP 4 – Participants Upload the Interview to the GAA eLearning Platform

STEP 5 – Participants are issued with a UNESCO Chairs/GAA Youth Researcher Certificate of Participation.

STEP 6 – Researchers from NUIG will analyse the interviews

STEP 7 - Irish actor Cillian Murphy will voice-over a video highlighting the findings of the project.

For further information contact gaagenerations@gaa.ie or Stephen Quinn at +353 (0) 1 819 2387

GAA Generations has benefitted from funding from the HSE Mental Health division via the National Office for Suicide Prevention. Depending on the volume of applications received, it may not be possible to facilitate everyone due to the analysis of the data required.