One Hundred Years Of Irish Rugby

Author : Ciaran Cronin
Publisher : VSP Books
ISBN 13 : 9781905326259
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland Rugby Miscellany written by Ciaran Cronin and published by VSP Books. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugely popular miscellany format book packed with stats, anecdotes, quotes, lists and general quirk from the rich history of Irish rugby union. Publication coincides with a boom period in Irish rugby as the best team in decades heads to the World Cup with genuine hope. With a foreword by Keith Wood.

Author : Edmund Van Esbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780717107155
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Irish Rugby written by Edmund Van Esbeck and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick McCarry
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178117332X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Breed: written by Patrick McCarry and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the professional era dawned in 1995, Irish rugby was in a rut. Provincial matches attracted crowds of 300, the national team was only capable of one exceptional result a year and there was a general lack of interest from the public. The nation's best players were lured abroad and bitter club rivals were thrown together to battle for provinces that could not attract coaches. No one could have predicted the rapid transformation that would overtake the Irish game. Within a few short years the provinces had become powerhouses on the club circuit, with Ulster, then Munster and Leinster achieving the ultimate goal of European glory. Today, Ireland is one of the strongest professional unions in the world and its senior team are reigning Six Nations champions. 'The New Breed' tells the story of this transformation. Key players of that first generation, including Ronan O'Gara, Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell, provide candid, enlightening interviews, while current professionals, such as Johnny Sexton, Keith Earls and Rob Kearney, offer insights into the ever-changing science, slog and sacrifice it now requires to make it to the very top.

Author : Liam O’Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 184488662X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood And Thunder written by Liam O’Callaghan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the political partition of the island, Ireland competes at rugby internationally with an all-island team – and with a bespoke anthem that nobody loves but everyone tolerates. Ireland has become a leading rugby nation despite its tiny population and the fact that the sport is only the fourth most popular team game on the island by participation. Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory book shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions – of politics, religion and class – that have defined modern Irish history. In Blood and Thunder O'Callaghan traces the sequence of events that led Ireland's private Catholic secondary schools to embrace rugby – a game of the Anglo-Protestant elite – rather than soccer or Gaelic football: a choice that may have more to do with Ireland becoming a major rugby nation than any other factor. He tells the strange story of Irish rugby's various methods of dealing with the lack of an all-Ireland national anthem or flag. He shows how a game associated with elite enclaves came to capture the imagination of the general public, and how a game played and administered by Northern unionists and Southern nationalists survived the various political crises that could have torn it apart. He looks at the controversies and crises that have shaken Irish rugby – including the Northern Troubles, the IRFU’s long refusal to join the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa, the Belfast rape trial, the rise and subsequent neglect of women’s rugby, and the rising toll of head injuries. And he traces the dramatic evolution whereby a rugby nation that was deeply attached to amateurism has made such a dramatic success of professionalism. Blood and Thunder is more than a social and political history of Irish rugby. It is also a shadow-history of modern Ireland, rooted in brilliant original research and packed with terrific stories.

Author : Brendan Fanning
Publisher : Gill & MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780717143917
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From There to Here written by Brendan Fanning and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rugby Union went professional in 1995. No country was more opposed to this development than Ireland, or less prepared to deal with it. Yet, despite many disasters in the late 1990s, the game in Ireland has gone from strength to strength in the professional era. This book tells the story of how it happened.

Author : David Guiney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872553009
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland V New Zealand written by David Guiney and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liam O'Callaghan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781859184806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rugby in Munster written by Liam O'Callaghan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An academic treatment of rugby football in Ireland. Covering the period from the game's origins in the 1870s through to the onset of professional rugby in the 21st century, it examines Munster rugby within the context of broader social, cultural and political trends in Irish society.

Author : Sean Diffley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780720707274
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Men in Green written by Sean Diffley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Bills
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781840181326
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Passion in Exile written by Peter Bills and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Irish Rugby Club, founded in 1898, has traditionally offered a home from home for all Irishmen living in England. The tremendous spirit which has sustained the club through good times and bad and which has appealed to rugby men and women from all countries of the world is at the heart of this book, which celebrates the centenary of the Irish exiles' club.

Author : Rod H. Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908570744
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centenary written by Rod H. Chester and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: