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Atlas of Irish Sport - History, Politics, Identity
Foreword by Mary McAleese
Sport in all its forms is central to many people's lives and is an expression of culture that is very much rooted in place. It creates its own emotional attachments and loyalties.
Different localities across Ireland have been defined by their sporting endeavours and achievements. This new atlas will trace the history of Ireland's sporting culture and identity from the earliest times to the present. It will look at the evolution of different sports before the advent of rules and codification in the late Victorian period.
The modernisation of Irelands sporting culture will be explored through the prism of major sports like horse racing, Gaelic football, hurling, soccer, rugby, athletics etc. as well as minority sports. The history of Irish sport extends beyond the island and the sporting traditions of Ireland's diaspora will also be examined in detail.
Comprehensive in scope and richly illustrated the atlas includes contributions from Ireland's leading historians and sports writers.
SECTION 1
Sport in pre-Modern Ireland
Chapter 1: Sport in pre-Modern Ireland
James Kelly
Double Page Spread: Cockfighting
Mike Cronin
Chapter 2: Horse Racing
James Kelly
Case Study: Sport on the Curragh
John Feehan
Chapter 3: Irish Pugilism
Adam Chill
Chapter 4: Hurling and Football
Eoin Kinsella
Box: Hurling, Football and the Law
Eoin Kinsella
Case Study: Hair of the Bog: Early Hurling Balls
Clodagh Doyle
Chapter 5: ‘Hurl out the Tithes’: Kilkenny Hurling and the Anti-Tithe Movement 1829-1833
Ray O’Connor
Chapter 6: Road Bowling
Fintan Lane
Chapter 7: Cricket in Ireland,1792-1878
Sean Reid
Box: Ashbrook Union Cricket Club
Sean Reid
Double Page Spread: Cricket on the Clonbrock Estate, Co Galway
Steve Dolan
Case Study: Sport in Dublin in the early nineteenth century
Julien Clénet
Box: Gentlemen debtors and playing ball: The Four Courts Marshalsea
Brian Crowley
Case Study: Fairs and Markets
Paul Rouse
Double Page Spread: Donnybrook Fair
John Crowley
Chapter 8: Sport and the Famine
Brian Griffin
Chapter 9: Rules and Associations
Mike Cronin
Double Page Spread: Yachting and early club formation
John Crowley
SECTION 2
Transformation, Codification and Modernisation 1850-1918
Double Page Spread: Introduction
Chapter 10: Ireland 1850-1918
Diarmaid Ferriter
Chapter 11: Urbanisation and Transportation
John Gibney and Sarah Gearty
Double Page Spread: The Laytown Races
John Crowley
Double Page Spread: The Gordon Bennett Cup: ‘A magnificent advertisement for Ireland’
John Crowley
Case Study: Sport and the Press
Paul Rouse
Box: Sport
Paul Rouse
Double Page Spread: Cork Free Press Columnist Tadhg Barry: ‘An Ciotóg’
Donal Ó Drisceoil
Chapter 12: Hospitable and Friendly: Garrison Towns and Military Sport
Aoife Bhreatnach
Chapter 13: Sport and Education
Conor Curran and John Walsh
Double Page Spread: Seán Heuston: Sports and Pastimes – ‘Taught to play the game of life’
John Crowley
Double Page Spread: Curative Physical Culture: Francis Sheehy Skeffington and the Prussian ‘strongman’ Eugen Sandow
John Crowley
Case Study: Gravel Football
Declan O’Keeffe
Chapter 14: Women and Sport
Maeve O’Riordan
Double Page Spread: Croquet’s Early Development
John Crowley
Case Study: ‘Irish Games for Irish Girls’ – The early years of camogie
Regina Fitzpatrick
Double Page Spread: Mollie Gill and the Early Development of Camogie
John Crowley
Chapter 15: The GAA: 1884 –1918
Richard McElligott
Case Study: The GAA and the Irish Country House
Ciarán Reilly
Box: The GAA invasion of the United States 1888
Mike Cronin and John Crowley
Double Page Spread: Dan Fraher, Dungarvan and the GAA
John Crowley
Box: Golden Vale of Hurling 1850-1918
Liam O’Callaghan
Case Study: The First All-Ireland Championships
Paul Rouse
Double Page Spread: Excelling in both ‘Science and Dash’ – Clare’s first All-Ireland hurling title in 1914
John Crowley
Case Study: Amateurism in Irish Sport
Dilwyn Porter
Box: The development of Gaelic football as part of the wider global emergence of football codes
Tony Collins
Chapter 16: Irish Soccer 1850-1918
Martin Moore
Double Page Spread: William McCrum: The Inventor of the Penalty Kick
John Crowley
Case Study: Before the GAA got there, women played football at Jones’s Road
Kevin McCarthy
Chapter 17: Rugby 1850-1918
Liam O’Callaghan
Case Study: ‘The Spiritual Home of Rugby’: The development, spread and popularity of rugby in Limerick
Faye Kinirons
Chapter 18: Irish Athletics 1850-1918
Tom Hunt
Double Page Spread: ‘Revived under regular rules’: Maurice Davin, athletics and the founding of the GAA
John Crowley
Double Page Spread: Daniel O’Leary – ‘the most graceful pedestrian that ever appeared on the track’
John Crowley
Chapter 19: Ireland and the Olympic Games 1896-1920
Kevin McCarthy
Double Page Spread: ‘The frequent purloinment of Irish athletic success’: Casement and the question of Ireland’s participation at the 1908 London Olympics
John Crowley
Case Study: The Irish Whales
Kevin McCarthy
Box: More Irish than the Irish – The Irish American Athletic Club (IAAC) of New York
Kevin McCarthy
Double Page Spread: Irish American Athletic Club (IAAC) and Olympic success
John Crowley
Double Page Spread: Culture and Politics: Tom Clarke’s membership of the IAAC
John Crowley
Chapter 20: Cycling 1850-1918
Brian Griffin
Case Study: Women and Cycling
Brian Griffin
Case Study: Bicycle Polo in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland
Brian Griffin
Chapter 21: Gymnastics in Ireland
Conor Heffernan
Chapter 22: Racquet sports in Ireland
Tom Higgins
Chapter 23: The Irish in Baseball
Myles Dungan
Chapter 24: The Fighting Diaspora: Three Heavyweight Champions in the Golden Age of Irish-American Prize Fighting, 1880-1930
John Borgonovo
Chapter 25: Cricket in Ireland 1870-1918
Patrick Bracken
Box: Mapping cricket in Ireland
Patrick Bracken
Case Study: Cricket in County Kilkenny
Michael O’Dwyer
Chapter 26: The Early Years of Irish golf
Dan Mulhall
Chapter 27: The Hunt of Ireland, 1850-1919
William Murphy
Case Study: Irish Mountaineering
Declan O’Keeffe
Chapter 28: The Great War and Ireland
Niamh Gallagher
Box: Irish Soldiers, the Dublin Pals and Sport
Lar Joye
Double Page Spread: Commemorating the plight of rugby playing friends
John Crowley
Chapter 29: Ireland’s Call: Sport, Ireland and the First World War
Stephen Walker
Case Study: impact of the Spanish Flu
Ida Milne
Box: Harlod Sloan: A forgotten soldier
Ciaran Priestley
Box: The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland – Elvery’s Cricket Bat, O’Connell Street, 1916
Brenda Malone
Double Page Spread: Elvery’s Elephant House
Mike Cronin
SECTION 3
Culture, Politics, Identities and Place
Chapter 30: Sport and Irish Society 1918-2000
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Double Page Spread: ‘The Ghost Train to Croke Park’
John Crowley
Double Page Spread: Forging the Nation: The Equitation School and Nations Cup success
John Crowley and Mike Cronin
Chapter 31: The Irish Revolution and Sport, 1912-1923
William Murphy
Double Page Spread: Pulsating ‘with the intensity of national feeling’ – Olympic cyclist Michael Walker and the 1916 Rising
John Crowley
Double Page Spread: Collegians 1917: ‘The Triumph of Play’
John Crowley
Box: ‘Last ball gone over’: Rounders and Civil War Women Prisoners
Brian Crowley
Case Study: Oscar Traynor – Tradesman, Footballer, Soldier, Politician and Football Administrator
Niall Quinn
Case Study: Gaelic Sunday
Aogán Ó Fearghail
Box: Tom Kenny and Galway GAA
Bernard Kelly
Case Study: Bloody Sunday
Michael Foley
Case Study: Bloody Sunday and Bohemian FC
Gerard Farrell
Case Study: Soccer players and the War of Independence
Aaron Ó Maonaigh
Case Study: The Tailteann Games
Doireann Markham
Double Page Spread: Ireland’s ‘Olympic sports’ – the postponed Tailteann Games of 1922
Mike Cronin
Double Page Spread: An unlikely encounter at a time of Civil War: The McTigue v M’barrick Fall world title bout
John Crowley
Chapter 32: Sport and the Partition of Ireland
Cormac Moore
Case Study: Division in Irish Athletics and Cycling
Pearse Reynolds
Double Page Spread: ‘A foreign game’ – Douglas Hyde’s removal as patron of the GAA
Cormac Moore
Chapter 33: ‘Ireland’ and the British Empire Games 1930-1938
Katie Liston and Joseph Maguire
Chapter 34: Class and Sport in Ireland
Donal Fallon
Chapter 35: Sport and Religion
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Double Page Spread: Attempted boycott and cancellation: Ireland V Yugoslavia 1955
Mike Cronin
Chapter 36: Gender and Sexuality in Ireland
Jennifer Redmond
Chapter 37: ‘Give us a place to play’
Donal McAnallen
Box: The growth and development of the GAA in Dublin
David Gorry
Case Study: Mapping Gaelic Games in Co Cork: ‘A team in every parish’
Diarmuid O’Donovan
Case Study: The GAA in London
Frances Harkin
Box: Sam Maguire
Darragh Gannon
Case Study: Liam MacCarthy
Marie Coleman
Case Study: A Pair of Brown Eyes – The Patrick O’Connell Story
Fergus Dowd
Chapter 38: Ireland and the Olympic Games
Tom Hunt
Double Page Spread: ‘To make the name of Ireland ring in the ears of the world’: JJ Keane and Irish Sport
John Crowley and Tom Hunt
Box: The Journey to the Los Angeles Olympics 1932
Tom Hunt
Double Page Spread: The 1932 Homecoming
Tom Hunt
Double Page Spread: Never happier in my life…’: Eoin O’Duffy’s sporting passions
Mike Cronin
Double Page Spread: ‘A river runs through it…’: Skibbereen’s rowing success
John Crowley
Chapter 39: Northern Ireland: Identity, Flags, Emblems and Sport
Dominic Bryan and Mike Cronin
Box: Sport, Ireland and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Chris Bolsmann
Case Study: Jack Lynch: Sportsman, Politician and Statesman
Dermot Keogh
Chapter 40: Sport and the Troubles
Philip O Kane and David Hassan
Case Study: H-Blocks Hunger Strike
Mark Reynolds
Chapter 41: The Sports Economy
Robert Butler
Case Study: Sports Sponsorship
Robert Butler
Box: Transformational – Dublin v Meath, 1991
Eoghan Corry
Chapter 42: Gambling,1918 – 2000
Liam O’Callaghan
Case Study: The Irish Hospitals Sweepstake and its impact on the development of sport in Ireland, 1930 –1987
Marie Coleman
Chapter 43: ‘GAA and the Irish Language: Tá áit dúinn uilig ann’
Brian ÓConchubhair
Double Page Spread: Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta
Seán Mac an tSíthigh
Chapter 44: Sport and Media in Ireland: 1918 – 2000
Mark Duncan
Chapter 45: Sport and Irish Radio
Mark Duncan
Chapter 46: The Complexity of Physical Education in Ireland (1922 –2022): From Suppression to Expression
Fiona C. Chambers, Joanne Moles, Arthur Twomey
Chapter 47: Transitions in Irish Sport: Globalisation, Professionalisation and Feminisation
Katie Liston and Joseph Maguire
