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This book examines the initial growth of clubs in Dublin and the Free State League’s early turbulent history, while the impact of Irish players and administrators on the development of soccer clubs at home and abroad is also assessed. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
List of contents
1. Introduction
2. Association football in Dublin in the late nineteenth century: an overview
3. The formation of the Football Association of Ireland
4. 'In the Ráth Camp, rugby or soccer would not have been tolerated by the prisoners': Irish Civil War attitudes to sport, 1922-3
5. A League is born: the League of Ireland's inaugural season, 1921-1922
6. The cross-border movement of Republic of Ireland-born footballers to Northern Ireland clubs, 1922-2000
7. One-way traffic? 100 years of soldiers, mercenaries, refugees and other footballing migrants in the League of Ireland, 1920-2020
8. Ireland's footballers at the 1924 and 1948 Olympic Games: compromised by the politics of sport
9. Peter J. Peel: the soccer king
10. Who's SARI now: social enterprise and the use of the medium of sport to further human rights in society
About the author
Conor Curran (Trinity College Dublin) has taught sports history at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester and at the University of Giessen and University of Marburg in Germany. He has published numerous articles and books on the history of Irish sport and is a former FIFA Havelange Research Scholar, an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and Dublin City Council football historian.
Summary
This book examines the initial growth of clubs in Dublin and the Free State League’s early turbulent history, while the impact of Irish players and administrators on the development of soccer clubs at home and abroad is also assessed. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
