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New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History - Going beyond the 'Garrison Game' (Hardcover)
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New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History - Going beyond the 'Garrison Game' (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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This book assesses association football's history and development
in Ireland from the late 1870s until the early twenty-first
century. It focuses on four key themes-soccer's early development
before and after partition, the post-Emergency years, coaching and
developing the game, and supporters and governance. In particular,
it examines key topics such as the Troubles, Anglo-Irish football
relations, the failure of a professional structure in the Republic
and Northern Ireland, national and regional identity, relationships
with other sports, class, economics and gender. It features
contributions from some of today's leading academic writers on the
history of Irish soccer while the views of a number of pre-eminent
sociologists and economists specialising in the game's development
are also offered. It identifies some of the difficulties faced by
soccer's players and administrators in Ireland and challenges the
notion that it was a 'garrison game' spread mainly by the military
and generally only played by those who were not fully committed to
the nationalist cause. This is the first edited collection to focus
solely on the progress of soccer in Ireland since its introduction
and adds to the growing academic historiography of Irish sport and
its relationship with politics, culture and society. The chapters
in this book were originally published an a special issue in Soccer
& Society.
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