Sport & Sport Biography

Marcus De Búrca - Michael Cusack and the GAA - PB 1st Ed 1989 - GAA Founder - Clare

A first edition, Anvil Press 1989 of Marcus de Búrca's groundbreaking study of Michael Cusack, the Clare born founder of the GAA, and one of the key members of what became known as the Gaelic Revivalmovement ( although not known by this at the...

Donal Keenan / Brothers in Sport GAA (Large Paperback)

 In a game rich with sibling talent and ability, Donal Keenan offers a fascinating examination of some of the game's remarkable family relationships. Profiling some of Ireland's most famous hurling and football brothers, Brothers in Sport provides...

Edmund Van Esbeck - Irish Rugby Scrapbook - Illustrated 1982

Cork born Van Esbeck was the rugby correspondent for the Irish Times since the 1960's, and also wrote the official centenary history of the IRFU .  This is a pictorial history of the highlights in Irish rugby history, centered in particular on the...

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 1939, played in a monsoon on the day World War II broke...

Rayvem David Allen / Punches on the Page : A Boxing Anthology (Hardback)

 Boxing by its nature breeds characters and this anthology of epic battles covers a century of gloved combat from the Boston Strong Boy John L. Sullivan to Muhammed Ali, Mike Tyson and Prince Naseem. The names themselves recall the colour and drama...

Guillem Balague / A Season on the Brink : Rafael Benitez, Liverpool and the Path to European Glory (Hardback)

 When Rafael Benitez was appointed manager of under-achieving Liverpool at the start of the 2004-2005 season, the reaction of many fans was 'Who the **** is Rafael Benitez?'. The Liverpool fans had grown used to French manager Gerard Houllier but he...

Jacqueline O'Brien & Ivor Herbert - Vincent O'Brien's Great Horses - HB - Ballydoyle 1984

A hardcover first edition Pelham Books, 1984, on the hugely successful business built by Vincent O'Brien at Ballydoyle, Tipperary - in breeding and raising some of the best horses in racing history. Co-written by Jacqueline O'Brien, who also took all the...

Christy O'Connor / From Rough to Fair Ways : The Christy O'Connor Jnr Autobiography (Hardback) Golf Ireland

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Richard Dunwoody / Obsessed : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 In his long-awaited autobiography, the most successful National Hunt jockey of all time reveals what it was that took him to the top - and how he managed to stay there for so long     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

A. P. McCoy / Winner: My Racing Life (Hardback)

 At Sandown Park on the 25 April 2015, riding Box Office, two jumps from home, the realisation hit me. This is it. This is really the end.I was now a matter of seconds away from the moment all the numbers stopped for ever. My career total of...

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 1939, played in a monsoon on the day World War II broke...

Bill McLaren / Rugby's Great Heroes and Entertainers (Hardback)

 Bill McLaren's career as a rugby commentator spanned 50 years and earned him enormous respect. He is therefore well placed to choose his all-time favourites from the world of rugby in this collection. His powers of description and huge depth of...

John Scally / Legends of Irish Rugby (Hardback)

   Based on exclusive interviews with 40 celebrated players, past and present, Legends of Irish Rugby is a veritable who's who of the sport. The top personalities of the Irish game take you behind the scenes to offer a unique perspective on...

Ian Poulter / No Limits : My Autobiography (Hardback)

   Ian Poulter is one of golf's most charismatic figures, with an appeal extending way beyond his sport. Here he tells his inspirational story, from his early rejection as an Spurs youth player, right through to his match-winning contributions...

Jessica Harrington / Moscow Flyer : Flying to Success (Hardback)

 The two-mile steeplechaser is the most exciting equine athlete on the planet. Half a ton of horse set to carry a rider over twelve 5ft fences at almost 40mph. Moscow Flyer, twice winner of Cheltenham's Champion Chase, is the most exciting of them...

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh / From Dun Sion to Croke Park : The Autobiography (Hardback)

   Memoir by well known Irish radio sports commentator. Author works for RTE and is a household name in Ireland. The book will cover his childhood growing up in Kerry, his years as a teacher and the past forty odd years as a GAA (Gaelic Games)...

International Football Book No 2 - Souvenir Press 1960 - Illustrated Vintage Football

With features on the European Cup, article by Matt Busby, and contributions by Alfredo di Stefano, Danny Blanchflower, Tom Finney Brian Glanville and many more.  With black and white photography throughout. Lacks the original dustjacket, but...

Sue Evison / Wayne Rooney : England's Hero (Large Paperback)

 He?s the most talented striker in Britain ? if not the world ? today. He has been likened to football legend Pele and has burst onto the international scene with a blistering performance in Euro 2004. At just 18 years old he has given his...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

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 itself. Some, like the Tipperary-Cork Munster Final of...

Guillem Balague / Messi (Large Paperback)

 Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in Argentina in 1987, he began playing football at a very young age, and it wasn't long before his skill and potential was noticed in Europe...

Eoin Murphy / Munster Rugby (Large Paperback)

 Rugby in Munster has grown from a minority sport to a hugely popular phenomenon, and now has a team that encapsulates the spirit of the province. The intensely fought Heineken Cup has propelled Irish rugby onto the European stage with this team...

Marcus Stead / Brian O'Driscoll : The Biography

 Brian O'Driscoll is the explosive captain of the 'golden generation' of Irish rugby and a renowned genius on the field. One of the top outside centres in the game, O'Driscoll first became captain of his country in 2003 and his phenomenal record...

Sam Torrance / Sam The Autobiography Of Sam Torrance

 Sam Torrance is one of the most popular and charismatic golfers in the world. He has spent the last three decades at the top of the professional game, but it is his exploits in the Ryder Cup that are truly astounding. As a player, he is famous for...

Pat Lynch - Clane's Golden Era : Gaelic Games 1985 - 2000 PB 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. Published by Clane GAA in 2007, illustrated in colour...

Alex Ferguson / Alex Ferguson : Six Years at United (Hardback)

 A biography of the football manager Alex Ferguson, concentrating on the six years he has spent in charge of Manchester United. Beginning his time there in the shadow of Sir Matt Busby, he led them to success in the 1990 FA Cup and the European Cup...

Eamon Dunphy / Strange Kind of Glory : Life of Sir Matt Busby and Manchester United (Hardback)

 This biography of Sir Matt Busby is, in many ways, also the story of Manchester United and the parallel rise and fall of English football over the last 50 years. The book contains revelations about the Munich Air Crash and the strained relationship...

Bill McLaren / The Voice of Rugby : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 As well reliving the highlights of his illustrious career as a commentator, Bill talks of the game today and his regrets that rugby went professional. He is a fierce critic of what this has led to and fears for the future health and safety of rugby...

Pele / Pele: The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is...

Ian Thorpe / This Is Me : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. He has won a record-holding eleven World Championship titles and ten Commonwealth Games gold medals. He has broken twenty-two world records and won five gold, three silver and...

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 changes in modern Ireland - opening the doors of Croke...

Tony McCoy / The Real McCoy! : My Life So Far (Hardback)

 At the age of only 22, Tony McCoy is already Champion Jockey, defeating established stars like Richard Dunwoody. This book traces his life from his childhood in County Antrim to his wins at Cheltenham and Aintree and holding the record for the...

Kieron Fallon / Form : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARKieren Fallon was one of the world's greatest jockeys, but his career was littered with controversial incidents. Now, in his powerful and honest autobiography, he tells all.'The most...

Peter Stringer / Pulling the Strings : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 When Peter Stringer played youth rugby, he was so small that people told his parents he shouldn't be allowed on the pitch. Fortunately for Munster and for Ireland, they paid no attention. Over 200 provincial caps and 98 international caps later,...

Darren Clarke / An Open Book - My Autobiography (Hardback)

 A golfer loved for his courage and charisma, Darren Clarke has the crowds behind him.They know he is a warm, funny raconteur who likes a Guinness, who both works hard and plays hard. More important, they know that this man pulled himself up by his...

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 proud on representative teams but sadly never achieved...

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. The effects were personally devastating, but amidst the...

David Beckham / My Side - The Autobiography (Hardback)

 With endless newspaper column inches devoted to one of the most talked about men in the world, it seems that we know everything there is to know about David Beckham. Or do we? This is Beckham's life story in his own words. The book deals with his...

Marcus Trescothick / Coming Back to Me : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick's brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better...

Ian Botham / Head On - Ian Botham : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Ian Botham, voted the cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, was a genuine all-rounder who, when on form, was simply unstoppable. In his miraculous early career, he broke all the records such as: the fastest ever all-rounder to achieve the...

John White / Manchester United Miscellany (Hardback)

 There is something for every United fan in The Official Manchester United Miscellany. The world-famous club has a widely diverse and amazingly successful history, but this book is neither a history, nor a fan's or collector's guide, nor a...

Conor O'Callaghan / Red Mist : Roy Keane and the World Cup Civil War - A Fan's Story (Hardback)

 2002 was the year of Roy Keane, if not exactly Roy Keane's year. Banished from Ireland's World Cup squad and then suspended by the English FA after comments in his best-selling autobiography, the Manchester United and Ireland captain was seldom out...

John Scally / GAA Fun and Games : Quotes, Jokes, Hits and Misses (Hardback)

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John Scally / Raising the Banner: Ger Loughnane, Official Biography (Large Paperback) Clare GAA

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Stephen Roche / Born to Ride (Large Paperback)

 On 6 September 1987, Stephen Roche touched greatness. Victory at the World Cycling Championship in Austria completed a near-unprecedented `triple crown' that included triumphs in the same year at the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. In April,...

Finbarr McCarthy / Bainisteoir: The Ten Greatest GAA Managers (Large Paperback)

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Wayne Rooney / My Decade in the Premier League (Large Paperback)

 'My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football - and for the biggest club in the world. This is his inside story of life on the pitch for Manchester Utd; the League...

McRory, Seamus - 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 teh managers who have contributed to the development of the game in the 30 years up to publication ( 1997) - Seán Boylan, Kevin...

Henry Blofeld / Cricket and All That

 This is a compelling and irreverent account of a sport that originated in 16th century England and was then gradually fed to the British Empire; nowadays, of course England are regularly outplayed by most of the commonwealth countries. The author's...

Lawrence Dallaglio / Dallaglio's Rugby Tales

 In RUGBY TALES, Lawrence Dallaglio recalls with affection and razor-sharp humour, the behind-the-scenes stories that have previously only been shared within the world of international rugby, together with some classics from his rugby-playing...

Jeremy Whittle / Bad Blood : The Secret Life of the Tour de France

 For Jeremy Whittle, there isn't much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked, taut and burnished athletes toiling across vast and ancient European landscapes, hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. And then there are...

Chris Hoy / Chris Hoy: The Autobiography

 Fully updated to include Sir Chris Hoy's incredible, record-breaking golds at London 2012 (making him his country's greatest ever Olympian), this is the story of a sporting legend in his own words.Fully updated to include Sir Chris Hoy's...