GAA BOOKS

Mike Cronin, Mark Duncan & Paul Rouse - The GAA - County by County - HB

People and place, sport and identity are at the heart of this book, telling the story of how the GAA has left a unique imprint on every Irish county and Irish communities overseas. Organised county...

Neil Cotter / Dublin: The Chaos Years : How the Dubs Made a Mess of Things for So Long - and How They Turned It Around (Large Paperback)

   Dublin has become the dominant force in Gaelic football, setting new standards of skill and efficiency. But it was not very long ago that the county was a byword for underachievement...

Norman Freeman - Classic Hurling Matches : 1976-91 (Large Paperback)

Hurling is one of the world's great field sports and this book contain accounts of a selection of games from 1976 to 1991. This book reflects the variety of hurling itself. Some, like the...

Norman Freeman / Classic Hurling Matches: 1976-91 (Large Paperback)

 Hurling is one of the world's great field sports and this book is one of two titles which contain accounts of a selection of games from 1956 to 1991. This book reflects the variety of hurling...

Owen McCann / The Liam MacCarthy Cup (Hardback)

 First awarded in 1923, Sean Og O Ceallachain and Owen McCann survey every decade since then, recalling many of the most famous All-Ireland hurling finals:* The thunder and lightning final of...

Owen McCann / The Liam MacCarthy Cup (Large Paperback)

 First awarded in 1923, Sean Og O Ceallachain and Owen McCann survey every decade since then, recalling many of the most famous All-Ireland hurling finals: * The thunder and lightning final of...

Pádraig Puirséal - The GAA in it's Time - A History - PB 1984 Ward River Press

First publised in 1982, this is a 1984 edition ( issued for the GAA centenary) of sports journalist Pádraig Puirséal's The GAA in it's Time.  Puirséal traces the issues and...

Pat Lynch - Clane's Golden Era : Gaelic Games 1985 - 2000 HB Kildare GAA

A hardback 1st edition history of Clane GAA, 1985-2000, by Pat Lynch - covering the County Kildare club. No ISBN, unpriced, hardcover with pictorial covers with titles in white to spine and front...

Pat Spillane / Shooting from the Hip : The Pat Spillane Story (Large Paperback)

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Paul Galvin / In My Own Words: The Autobiography (Large Paperback)

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Paul Huggard / Singing The Blues - The Long Walk Back to Happiness on Hill 16 (Large Paperback)

 Between 1974 and 1977 Kevin Heffernan’s Dublin were the greatest Gaelic football team in the land, playing the game with a style and panache that electrified the city, but then, something...

Philly McMahon / The Choice

   BGE Irish Sports Book of the Year and eir Sports Book of the YearIn The Choice Dubs star Philly McMahon shares the deeply personal story of his brother, John, a heroin addict who died...

Philly McMahon / The Choice (Hardback)

 When Dublin footballer lost his older brother John in 2012, it brought to an end a painful decade, during which John had slipped from the family circle into a deteriorating cycle of addiction...

Philly McMahon / The Choice (Signed by the Author) (Hardback).

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Philly McMahon / The Choice (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)..

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Philly McMahon / The Choice. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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PJ Cunningham / GAA Grassroots: Volume 2 The Second Half: Stories From the Heart of the GAA (Large Paperback)

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Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB - BRAND NEW ( Kilkenny GAA)

Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible...

Roland Tormey / Summertime Blues : Dublin's Epic Journey to a Historic All-Ireland (Large Paperback)

 Told through the experiences of a Dublin Gaelic football fan and of a number of the players from the team of the early 1990s, "Summertime Blues" is the story of the long, hot dry summer of...

Ronnie Bellew / GAA: The Glory Years of Hurling and Football

During the past 15 years, the GAA has gone through a renaissance, taking center stage in the Irish sporting arena, enjoying a greater groundswell of support than ever before. In The Glory Years,...

Rory O'Connor / The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA (Hardback)

 Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA sends up a certain kind of lad obsessed with the GAA calendar, his local...

Scally, John - The GAA Immortals - 100 Gaelic Games Legends - PB

he lore and legend of Gaelic Games has been shaped by great players. Since the Games began, special players have had a unique power to make the heart skip a beat. Now THE GAA IMMORTALS celebrates the...

Seamus McRory - The Voice From the Sideline : Famous GAA Managers - 1997

Paperback,  some minor creases to corners on back covers.  Follows the Gaelic football careers of some of the managers who have contributed to the development of the game in the 30 years up...

Seamus McRory / The All-Ireland Dream : Over 20 Interviews with GAA Greats (Large Paperback)

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Seán Murphy - The Life and Times of Jackie Power : The Prince of Hurlers - PB - SIGNED

John (‘Jackie’) Power (1916–94) hurler, was born in 1916 in Annacotty, Co. Limerick.  An extremely talented all-round athlete, he began to play hurling at national school and...

Sean Boylan / Sean Boylan : The Will to Win (Hardback)

   Renowned as the manager who brought the Sam Maguire to Meath after a gap of twenty years - and then brought it back again three more times - Boylan has led an interesting and...

Sean Cavanagh / Sean Cavanagh: The Obsession : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 SEAN CAVANAGH is one of the greatest Gaelic footballers of all time. A threetime All-Ireland winner and five-time All Star, Cavanagh was crowned Footballer of the Year in 2008 and captained...

Sean Kelly - Rule 42 and All That - PB - BRAND NEW - GAA - Biography

From boyhood days in his local GAA field at Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, to the office of President of the GAA, Seán Kelly reflects on how he came to lead one of the most dramatic, debate-provoking...

Sean Kelly / Rule 42 and All That (Hardback) GAA

 From boyhood days in his local GAA field at Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, to the office of President of the GAA, Sean Kelly reflects on how he came to lead one of the most dramatic, debate-provoking...

Sean McGoldrick / I Remember it well - Biography Of Jimmy Magee (Large Paperback)

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Sean Óg Ó Ceallachain / Giants of Gaelic Football

 Giants of Gaelic Football is a unique publication, the first of its kind, recalling and celebrating the careers of the finest players in the history of the game. Embracing great players from...

Sean Og O Ceallachain / Giants of Gaelic Football : 50 All-Time Greats (Hardback)

 Because of their successes, the premier football counties occupy a very prominent position in the book. Not forgotten, however, are the large numbers of great players who did their counties...

Sean Potts / Páidí: The Life of Gaelic Football Legend Páidí Ó Sé (Large Paperback)

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Shane Carthy / Dark Blue (Large Paperback)

  Shane Carthy writes frankly and eloquently about his journey over the last five years. He details, without overdramatising, the downward spiral which, days after producing a man-of-the-match...

Sportsfile & Damian Lawlor - Treaty Triumph - How Limerick's Young Hurlers Lifted the Liam MacCarthy Cup 2018 - PB

This 168 page book is a pictorial record of how Limerick's young hurlers captured the hearts of a county and lifted the Liam MacCarthy cup in 2018 - the first win since 1973. Treaty Triumph was...

Sportsfile - A Season Of Sundays - 1999 - GAA Photography - Yearbook - 1999 HB - Sport

This 133 page hardback coffee table book (300mm x 300mm) is a collection of images of the 1999 Gaelic Games year by the Sportsfile photographers. With text by Irish Times journalist, Tom Humphries,...

Sportsfile - A Season Of Sundays - 2003 - HB - GAA - Photography

The annual photographic journal of the GAA year ( Kilkenny won the Hurling, beating Cork in a tight final, and Mickey Harte's Tyrone won the football, beating Armagh). Light edgewear, bumping to top...

Sportsfile - A Season of Sundays - 2004 - HB - Photography - GAA

The annual GAA sports photography book, published by Sportsfile , with Kerry beating Mayo in the football, and Cork beating Kilkenny in the hurling final.  Light edgewear only. The laminate on...

Sportsfile - A Season of Sundays - 2005 - HB - GAA - Photography

The 2005 annual A Season of Sundays, with the best in GAA photography from Sportsfile. Bump / crush to the lower corner of the covers, otherwise internally unmarked. the 9th issue of the series...

Sportsfile - A Season of Sundays - 2007 - HB - Photography - GAA

The annual GAA photography issue, with the best of sports photography by the talented team at Sportsfile . The 11th year of publication, with Kilkenny deteating Limerick in the hurling final, and...

Sportsfile - A Season of Sundays - 2018 - HB - GAA - Photography

The annual yearbook of the best of GAA photography, taken by the talented Sportsfile photojournalists.  Cover image of emotional Limerick hurlers celebrating in Croke Park after the final...

Sportsfile - A Season Of Sundays 2006 - GAA Photography - Yearbook - 2006 HB - Sport

This 130 page hardback coffee table book (300mm x 300mm) is a collection of images of the 2006 Gaelic Games year by the Sportsfile photographers. With text by Irish Times journalist, Tom Humphries,...

SPORTSFILE - Great Moments in Gaelic Football - HB -2016

 Fast, physical, athletic and driven by local and national rivalries, Gaelic football is a unique part of our heritage. Ray McManus and his team at Sportsfile are as passionate as all true...

Tadhg Evans - A Storied Kingdom : Sports , Culture and Stories from Kerry - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

From the author's own description -  The book is a collection of approximately 50 feature stories I’ve written during my five years (and happily counting) with The Kerryman, and they...

The Championship 2016: The Complete Football and Hurling Record. 22nd Edition: Unrivalled Record of the Football and Hurling Championships (Large Paperback)

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Tim Carey - Croke Park : A History - HB Illustrated 2004

croke Park is alocation central to Ireland's national consciousness. Headquarters of Ireland's largest sporting and cultural organisation, the Gaelic Athletic Association, it has witnessed many...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2006 - Bliainiris Thobraid Árann PB

A paperback large format ( a4) sized, of the annual GAA Tipperary Yearbook, illustrated throughout. The 2006 edition, as is the norm with annuals, covers the events and matches of 2005...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2021 - Blianiris Thiobraid Árann - PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2021( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2021) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  176 pages, large format paperback, very good , apart from bumped crease...

Weeshie Fogarty / My Beautiful Obsession: Chasing the Kerry Dream (Large Paperback)

 My Beautiful Obsession captures the importance of football in the life of a Kerry youngster in Killarney in the 1950s, and his dreams of playing with Kerry in Croke Park. Through the eyes of...

Diarmuid O'Flynn - The Boy Wonder of Hurling : The Story of Jimmy Doyle Told in His Own Words - PB

Tipperary's Jimmy Doyle was "The Boy Wonder" of hurling in the 1950s and 1960s. It was famed broadcaster Michael O'Hehir who first dubbed Jimmy "The Boy Wonder", and the title caught on with the...