Sport and Ireland: A History

by Paul Rouse

Book Overview

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are uniquely Irish and are defined by the peculiarities of life on a small island on the edge of Europe. What is equally apparent, though, is that the Irish sporting world is unique only in part;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198745907
• ISBN13: 9780198745907
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"