
Rugby, Soccer and Irish Society
This book is the first academic all-island history of either rugby union or association football, two of the three most popular male sporting pastimes in Ireland, across the seven decades that followed the political partition of that country between 1920 and 1922.
It moves beyond the occasionally simplistic explanations of the development of Irish sport that have focused on political and sectarian ...
This book is the first academic all-island history of either rugby union or association football, two of the three most popular male sporting pastimes in Ireland, across the seven decades that followed the political partition of that country between 1920 and 1922.
It moves beyond the occasionally simplistic explanations of the development of Irish sport that have focused on political and sectarian ...