A social and cultural history of sport in Ireland /
A social and cultural history of sport in Ireland /
edited by Richard McElligott and David Hassan.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- xiv, 150 p. ; 25 cm. ; cased.
- Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives .
CW807
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Irish sports history / Richard McElligott and David Hassan -- Contesting the fields of play : the Gaelic Athletic Association and the battle for popular sport in Ireland, 1890-1906 / Richard McElligott -- The Cork sportsman : a provincial sporting newspaper, 1908-1911 / David Toms -- Ireland : soccer champions of the world / Cormac Moore -- The GAA and revolutionary Irish politics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland / David Hassan and Andrew McGuire -- The emergence of hurling in Australia 1877-1917 / Patrick Bracken -- Irish-born players in England's football leagues, 1945-2010 : an historical and geographical assessment / Conor Curran -- Irish rugby and the First World War / Liam O'Callaghan -- Hardy Fingallians, Kildare trippers and 'The divil ye'll rise' scufflers : wrestling in modern Ireland / Paul Ignatius Gunning -- The National Athletic Association of Ireland and Irish athletics, 1922-1937 : steps on the road to athletic isolation / Tom Hunt.
113810129X 9781138101296
Sports--Social aspects--History.--Ireland
Sports in popular culture--History.--Ireland
306.483
CW807
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Irish sports history / Richard McElligott and David Hassan -- Contesting the fields of play : the Gaelic Athletic Association and the battle for popular sport in Ireland, 1890-1906 / Richard McElligott -- The Cork sportsman : a provincial sporting newspaper, 1908-1911 / David Toms -- Ireland : soccer champions of the world / Cormac Moore -- The GAA and revolutionary Irish politics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland / David Hassan and Andrew McGuire -- The emergence of hurling in Australia 1877-1917 / Patrick Bracken -- Irish-born players in England's football leagues, 1945-2010 : an historical and geographical assessment / Conor Curran -- Irish rugby and the First World War / Liam O'Callaghan -- Hardy Fingallians, Kildare trippers and 'The divil ye'll rise' scufflers : wrestling in modern Ireland / Paul Ignatius Gunning -- The National Athletic Association of Ireland and Irish athletics, 1922-1937 : steps on the road to athletic isolation / Tom Hunt.
113810129X 9781138101296
Sports--Social aspects--History.--Ireland
Sports in popular culture--History.--Ireland
306.483