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
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
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Über den Autor
Eoghan Corry is a sports historian and one of Ireland’s leading sports journalists. He story-lined the GAA Museum in Croke Park. A native of Kildare, he has been working in print and broadcast journalism for over thirty years and has been writing sports books since his early teens. He is a former sports editor of the Sunday Tribune and a former features editor of the Irish Press and Evening News, and now writes a column in the Irish Independent. He is currently editor of Travel Extra and is a regular contributor on travel affairs to RTÉ Radio and TG4. His many books include The Illustrated History of the GAA (2005) and The Irish at Cheltenham (2009).
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 383 ● ISBN 9780717163694 ● Dateigröße 0.5 MB ● Verlag Gill Books ● Ort London ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2009 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 3252663 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM
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