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  • Irish Soccer Migrants: a Social and Cultural History

    by Conor Curran ...
    This book looks at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born football migrants to Britain and further afield. In particular, it draws on interviews with twenty-four Irish-born footballers, each of whom has played league football in England or Scotland in the 1945-2010 period. This is the first book to utilise these migrants as a quantitative source, and to illustrate their experiences ... Read more

    $19.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The League of Ireland

    An Historical and Contemporary Assessment

    Edited by Conor Curran ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    2021 saw the centenary of the formation of the League of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland’s primary professional association football league. This new collection draws on the work of a number of leading historians of Irish soccer and seeks to examine a number of previously under-researched aspects relating to the league. The book examines the initial growth of clubs in Dublin and the Free State ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Blue Chippers from the Emerald Isle

    A history of Irish footballers and scholarships in the USA in the twentieth century

    by Conor Curran, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 140 - Reimagining Ireland
    «In this excellent, readable and important study,　Curran reveals a rich vein of migrants who went to ply their trade as soccer players in the USA. This textured study illustrates the human side of the story enlivened by rich interviews of both female and male players. It is a must for students of the diaspora and sports studies. A major contribution».(Professor Donald MacRaild, London Metropolitan ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History

    Going beyond the 'Garrison Game'

    Edited by Conor Curran, David Toms ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book assesses association football’s history and development in Ireland from the late 1870s until the early twenty-first century. It focuses on four key themes—soccer’s early development before and after partition, the post-Emergency years, coaching and developing the game, and supporters and governance. In particular, it examines key topics such as the Troubles, Anglo-Irish football ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900-2000: A History

    by Conor Curran ...
    Series Book 3219123 - Sport, History and Culture
    This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second level schools in the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international developments in the subject, it examines its state in these schools prior to the partition of Ireland in 1921. It assesses the reasons why physical drill’s status was reduced in the Irish Free State’s primary ... Read more

    $59.29 USD

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  • How Football Began

    A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born

    by Tony Collins ...
    This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world.The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Tony Collins ...
    Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league.This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super League in the 1990s, through war, depression, boom and deindustrialisation, into a new economic and social ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Four Lions

    The Lives and Times of Four Captains of England

    by Colin Shindler ...
    FOUR LIONS explores the changing landscape of postwar England through the careers of four iconic England football captains: Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker and David Beckham. Between Wright, who fought in World War II, and Beckham, whose battles against Germany were played out on the football field, huge shifts in English society were mirrored by seismic changes to the national game as ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the Present

    Edited by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Sport and Ireland

    A History

    by Paul Rouse ...
    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, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A People Under Siege

    The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond

    by Aaron Edwards ...
    Since the Brexit referendum of 2016, extraordinary uncertainty has hung over the future of the Union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, creating a crisis for the unionist community. A referendum that began on the question of sovereignty quickly degenerated into cries of betrayal over a redrawn border in the Irish Sea, and has led to unionists becoming more insular again, resurrecting ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Social History of English Rugby Union

    by Tony Collins ...
    From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England.Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD