Abstract
The Gaelic Athletic Association is Ireland’s largest sporting and cultural organisation. Between 2008 and 2012 the Association funded a large-scale oral history project of its membership, which is now freely accessible online. The project is one of the largest sports specific oral history projects undertaken in the world to date. This article explores the development, scope and function of the project, and then considers the issues that are connected, both in terms of methodology and legacy, with such a large-scale project. Comparing the GAA Oral History Project to similar non-sport initiatives reveals that the scale of an oral history projects transforms its intention from data collection for immediate use, through research outcomes, into the creation, specifically, of an archive for future generations.
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