page_title: Michael Cusack
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Cusack / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Michael Cusack statue, Croke Park
context_page_description: Michael Cusack was an Irish teacher and founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
context_section_description: The newly opened Michael Cusack Visitor Centre located on the original homestead in Poulaphuca townland, Carran, The Burren, County Clare is dedicated to recounting the fascinating story of Michael Cusack and the idealism which led to him founding the Gaelic Athletic Association.
  The bigoted character of "The Citizen" in James Joyce's novel Ulysses is thought to have been at least in part based on what has been described as "a jaundiced portrait of Michael Cusack".
  The Clare GAA pitch in Ennis, and the Westmeath GAA pitch in Mullingar, are both named "Cusack Park" in his honour, as is the "Cusack Stand" in Croke Park, Dublin.
  The primary school Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg in Ennis, County Clare, is also named after him.
  Michael Cusacks's Sydney GAA Club was founded in 1988 by a group of Clare men and was named in honour of the man from Carran.
  Chicago Michael Cusack Hurling Club is a GAA club consisting entirely of American-born players founded in 2008.
  A small collection of family papers was donated to the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, by his grandniece, Patricia O'Connell. They include a letter in the form of a diary, written by Cusack on holidays in Lisdoonvarna in July 1902, photographs, a prayer book he gave his wife Margaret (née Woods), and a book of minutes of the Dublin Hurling Club of 1884.
caption: Statue of Cusack in Croke Park, holding a blackthorn stick.
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