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Author:   Conor Curran (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ,  David Toms
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367593094

ISBN 10:   0367593092
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction to ‘going beyond the ‘‘garrison game’’: new perspectives on association football in Irish history’ Conor Curran and David Toms 2. Association Football in the Shamrock Shire’s Hy Brasil: The ‘Socker’ Code in Connacht, 1879–1906 Paul I. Gunning 3. ‘Who were the Shoneens?’: Irish militant nationalists and association football, 1913–1923 Aaron O´ Maonaigh 4. ‘‘Inciting the roughs of the crowd’: soccer hooliganism in the south of Ireland during the inter-war period, 1919–1939’ Mark Tynan 5. Football unity during the Northern Ireland Troubles? Cormac Moore 6. Linfield’s ‘Hawk of Peace’: pre-Ceasefires reconciliation in Irish League football Daniel Brown 7. Harry Cannon: a unique Irish sportsman and administrator Tom Hunt 8. How it all began: the story of women’s soccer in sixties Drogheda Helena Byrne 9. The development of schoolboy coaching structures for association football in Ireland, 1945–1995 Conor Curran 10. Pedagogy, game intelligence & critical thinking: the future of Irish soccer? Seamus Kelly 11. Supporter ownership as a method of football governance: the concept of a Supporters’ Trust and its operation within England and the Republic of Ireland Shane Tobin 12. Rule changes and incentives in the League of Ireland from 1970 to 2014 David Butler and Robbie Butler

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Conor Curran is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and has taught sports history at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published two books, The Development of Sport in Donegal, 1880–1935 (2015) and Irish Soccer Migrants: A Social and Cultural History (2017). David Toms is an independent scholar based in Norway. Previously, he taught sports history at University College Cork, Ireland, and his monograph, Soccer in Munster: A Social History, 1877–1937, was published in 2015.

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