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The History of Gaelic Football
Gaelic football has grown into a massive modern entertainment industry, celebrated on summer Sundays at Europe's third largest sports stadium. Yet it has retained a unique relationship with the often small local communities which sustain it. Gaelic footballers and their followers receive no payment, have no transfer system and remain loyal to their home counties as players and supporters. This is more than a sport – it is a subculture of its own, with songs, stories and ceremonies that are unique in the sporting world. In this fascinating book, Eoghan Corry charts the emergence of great Gaelic football teams, players and rivalries whose tactics brought success and whose innovations changed...
The History of Gaelic Football
Gaelic Football has grown into a massive modern entertainment industry, celebrated on summer Sundays at Europe's third largest sports stadium. Yet it has retained a unique relationship with the often small local communities which sustained it.
God and the Referee
In God and the Referee, Eoghan Corry takes the most memorable words written or spoken about the GAA and amasses them into a treasury of the great and the good. Grouped into twenty-five sections, God and the Referee covers the full expanse of the GAA from players and coaches, journalists and commentators, balladeers and mentors - and from the many hurlers on the ditch who know the game better than anyone. This collection of over 1,000 of the most memorable GAA quotations will amuse and absorb readers, collecting together the unforgettable, outstanding, brilliant words of those GAA greats who have enlivened and brightened Ireland's national sports.
The Irish at Cheltenham
The National Hunt festival at Cheltenham is one of the great highlights of the British sporting calendar. It also witnesses an annual invasion of Irish punters who bring a unique colour and atmosphere to the great meeting. In this book, Eoghan Corry examines this Irish phenomenon.
I'm Glad You Asked Me that
In this compilation of Irish political quotations we come face-to-face with the good, the bad and the ugly of Irish political life. Eoghan Corry charts the sometimes glorious but always eventful course of Irish politics.
Top 10 of Ireland
From the bestselling author of Hamlyn's Top 10 of Everything series comes an exclusive collection of 250 unique lists that chronicle the quirks of the Emerald Isle. Discover hundreds of essential, intriguing and bizarre facts about the country's most iconic and curious subjects, including: 10 Irish place-names also found abroad Ireland's 10 most popular visitor attractions 10 great Irishmen that may have never existed 10 great Irish catchphrases 10 Irish Peace Prize Winners 10 famous members of the travelling community 10 words invented in Ireland The unlikely origins of 10 famous Irish songs 10 Irish sporting controversies 10 famous Irish advertising campaigns... plus 240 other fascinating lists in this at-a-glance guide to everything Irish.
Deadlock
In the summer of 1991 two of the best supported teams were drawn against each other in the opening round. And incredibly, it took four matches and one of the most dramatic finishes in history before there was a winner.
An Illustrated History of the GAA
The GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) is the largest amateur sports body in the world and the most successful voluntary organization in the history of modern Ireland. Its games are played in every parish, village and townland of Ireland; is influence on Irish public life is immeasurable. Drawing on the resources of the GAA Museum in Croke Park plus many private and public sources, Eoghan Corry surveys the development of Gaelic games through their various eras, tracing the history of this extraordinary body in pictures from its foundation and development in the late 19th century through to its continued success in the Ireland of the Celtic Tiger.
The Nation Holds Its Breath
JACK CHARLTON; NIALL QUINN; JOHNNY GILES; GEORGE BEST; EAMON DUNPHY; LIAM BRADY; GEORGE HAMILTON; ROY KEANE; RAY HOUGHTON; PAUL MCGRATH; NORMAN WHITESIDE Ireland's soccer players may never have won the World Cup, but they have never been off the podium when it comes to the wit and eloquence of the banter that follows the game. In The Nation Holds Its Breath, Eoghan Corry celebrates the folklore of footlore, where the words of players, managers, referees, journalists and commentators are interspersed with the observations of some notable outsiders who have marvelled at the fact that, win or lose on the field, you will never beat the Irish. 'I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.' ROY KEANE 'And Bonner has gone 165 minutes of these championships without conceding a goal. Oh danger here' GEORGE HAMILTON
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