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Informationen zum Autor Paul Darby is a senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise in the University of Ulster (Jordanstown). He is author of Africa! Football and FIFA: Politics! Colonialism and Resistance (Frank Cass 2002) and joint editor (with Gavin Mellor and Martin Johnes) of Soccer and Disaster: International Perspectives (2005). His current research! funded by the ESRC! concentrates on football labour migration from Ghana to Europe and he is completing a book for University College Dublin Press on Gaelic games and the Irish Diaspora in the United States. He sits on the editorial boardofSoccer and Societyand Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sport. David Hassan is a senior lecturer in the politics of sport at the University of Ulster (Jordanstown). He is also Deputy Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society. He conducts research on the interplay of sport and national identity in Ireland and the political economy of sport on a global scale. In addition! forthcoming collections on football governance (with Sean Hamil! University of London! UK) and sport labour migration (with Carlos Henrique de Vasconcellos Ribeiro! Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul! Brazil) will be published in early 2009. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes how the Irish aptitude and ebullience for sport has manifested itself abroad in countries with large Irish communities. Tracing how some clung to the traditions of the ‘Old Country’; it also considers how involvement in sports enabled émigrés to adapt to new locales. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Irish contribution to the ‘world’ of sport. Part 1: The Irish Diaspora & Gaelic Sport . 1: The diffusion of Gaelic games to Europe. 2: The GAA in Scotland. 3: The GAA in England. 4: The GAA in Australia. 5: Gaelic Games, Ethnic Identity and Irish Nationalism in New York City c.1880-1917 6. The Development of Camogie in Britain. Part 2: The Irish Diaspora & Global Sport . 7: The Irish contribution to Baseball in the United States. 8: The Irish in Cricket in Australia. 9: Liverpool Football Club’s Irish Connection. 10: John L Sullivan, Boxing and Identity amongst the Boston Irish. 11: The Irish contribution to Basketball in the US. 12: Rugby and the Irish Diaspora ...
