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Author : Jack Mahon
Publisher : Gill
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Gaelic football
ISBN : 071713279X
Gaelic football is one of the most popular spectator sports in Ireland, with matches regularly attracting 35,000-60,000 spectators. This is a comprehensive history of the game.
Author : John O'Flynn
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425163778
Canada's embrace of Gaelic games has provided wonderful memories for those of the Irish-Canadian community and has created an opportunity for all to discover an exciting facet of Ireland's culture.
Author : Eoghan Corrigan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780717163694
Gaelic football has grown into a massive modern entertainment industry, celebrated on summer Sundays at Europe's third largest sports stadium. Yet it has retained a unique relationship with the often small local communities which sustain it. Gaelic footballers and their followers receive no payment, have no transfer system and remain loyal to their home counties as players and supporters. This is more than a sport – it is a subculture of its own, with songs, stories and ceremonies that are unique in the sporting world. In this fascinating book, Eoghan Corry charts the emergence of great Gaelic football teams, players and rivalries whose tactics brought success and whose innovations changed the sport itself. The History of Gaelic Football also outlines how the game became entangled in the political life of Ireland, tracing its course as it weaved and bobbed through political controversy, civil war and Ireland's rapidly-changing society over the course of the twentieth century. It recounts hilarious incidents from the history of Gaelic football, from invading crowds to crazy goals, detailing the rough, the tough and the bizarre that characterise the sport. Above all, it celebrates the players who bring entertainment, excitement and excellence, and who enrich the lives of ordinary people across Ireland and the world. The History of Gaelic Football: Table of Contents Author's Note Introduction - 1873–1903: The Battle of the Balls - 1903–27: A Popular Game - 1927–47: Hand Across the Atlantic - 1948–74: Strong and Forthright Men - 1987–2000: Inside the Mind of the Champion - More Matches, More Watchers
Author : Marcus De Búrca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015045665869
Author : Eamonn Sweeney
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847175212
A clear, concise and fascinating introduction to Gaelic sport, covering Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball. The two greatest finals, the All Ireland Hurling and Football finals, are the largest amateur events in the world, drawing huge crowds and bringing many parts of the country to a standstill. This book deals with the origins of these games and their revival, the history of the championships and the GAA, the main rules and scoring systems, famous teams and players, great GAA grounds, All-Star awards and tours, the women's games, famous commentators, the gear and the trophies, compromise games with Aussie rules. A compendium of information on the fastest field sports in the world.
Author : Raymond Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499890571
Author : Donal Keenan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Gaelic football
ISBN : 1856355667
Author : Mike Cronin,Mark Duncan,Paul Rouse
Publisher : Collins Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1848890184
This people's history of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) outlines how Gaelic games and the social world around them shaped the lives of generations of Irish people at home and abroad.
Author : Andy Watters,Neil Loughran
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780750955812
Ireland's love affair with Gaelic Games in general, and Gaelic football in particular, has never dimmed. Through the lean days of hunger and emigration, through the champagne-mojito-flavoured years of the Celtic Tiger and onwards, Ireland's love affair for 'our games' has always endured. Fact-packed and light-hearted in style, this reliable reference book and a quirky guide reveals little-known facts about Gaelic football along with details of classic matches, statistical records, famous players, amusing anecdotes, and a general history. This can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about this ancient game.
Author : Paul Rouse
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780191063039
This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are uniquely Irish and are defined by the peculiarities of life on a small island on the edge of Europe. What is equally apparent, though, is that the Irish sporting world is unique only in part; much of the history of Irish sport is a shared history with that of other societies. Drawing on an unparalleled range of sources - government archives, sporting institutions, private collections, and more than sixty local, national, and international newspapers - this volume offers a unique insight into the history of the British Empire in Ireland and examines the impact that political partition has had on the organization of sport there. Paul Rouse assesses the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policy-making in modern states, and the ways in which sport has been colonized by the media and has colonized it in turn. Each chapter of Sport and Ireland contains new research on the place of sport in Irish life: the playing of hurling matches in London in the eighteenth century, the growth of cricket to become the most important sport in early Victorian Ireland, and the enlistment of thousands of members of the Gaelic Athletic Association as soldiers in the British Army during the Great War. Rouse draws out the significance of animals to the Irish sporting tradition, from the role of horse and dogs in racing and hunting, to the cocks, bulls, and bears that were involved in fighting and baiting.
Author : Eoghan Corry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gaelic football
ISBN : 0717146634
Gaelic Football has grown into a massive modern entertainment industry, celebrated on summer Sundays at Europe's third largest sports stadium. Yet it has retained a unique relationship with the often small local communities which sustained it.
Author : Raymond Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Gaelic football
ISBN : OCLC:25358550
Author : John DT White
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908752727
101 Things You May Not Have Known About Gaelic Football is the definitive guide to All-Ireland Senior Football in Ireland. In this e-book the reader will be taken on a magical journey back in time with the formation of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884; the first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final; the history of the famous Sam Maguire Cup; a look at the man considered to be the father of the GAA, Michael Cusack; All-Ireland Senior Champions; GAA All-Star Awards; GAA Team of the Century; GAA Team of the Millennium; the American All-Ireland Final; bans; Croke Park; Bloody Sunday; Tim Clarke Cup; Tommy Markham Cup; Railway Cup; Tommy Murphy Cup; All-Ireland Minor Champions; historic sides; legendary players and so much more. No matter what County you hail from this e-book will test your knowledge and that of your friends to find out just what you know about Ireland’s No.1 sport.
Author : John Connolly,Paddy Dolan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783030316990
In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years. The main themes in the book include: advances in the threshold of repugnance towards violence in the playing of Gaelic games, changes in the structure of spectator violence, diminishing displays of superiority towards the competing sports of soccer and rugby, the tension between decentralising and centralising processes, the movement in the balance between amateurism and professionalism, changes in the power balance between ‘elite’ players and administrators, and the difficulties in developing a new hybrid sport. The authors also explain how these developments were connected to various social processes including changes in the structure of Irish society and in the social habitus of people in Ireland.
Author : John Scally
Publisher : Black & White Publishing Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785301049
Gaelic Games are the focus of endless debate and speculation, set the mood of Monday's post-match workplace and dominate pub-talk. For many of us, life and death run second to major GAA events. Blood, Sweat, Triumph & Tears looks back at some of the best moments from the sporting nation's favourite soap opera. It pays homage to the great players and people in Gaelic football, hurling, ladies' football and camogie. And it glories in the classic victories and thrilling contests witnessed down the decades. Based on exclusive interviews with the greatest personalities in the GAA's rich history, and covering every county in Ireland, here is a unique insight into the passion and politics, the controversies and crises, the wisdom and wit and all the highs and lows of Ireland's national treasure. Full of entertaining anecdotes, inspirational incidents and epic encounters, Blood, Sweat, Triumph & Tears truly captures the magic of the GAA. 'A book to shorten the long winter nights for any GAA fan.' DERMOT EARLEY, Kildare legend 'Will bring back great memories for lovers of Gaelic Games.' KAROL MANNION