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Sport and Ireland - A History (Paperback)
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Sport and Ireland - A History (Paperback)
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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;
much of the history of Irish sport is a shared history with that of
other societies. Drawing on an unparalleled range of sources -
government archives, sporting institutions, private collections,
and more than sixty local, national, and international newspapers -
this volume offers a unique insight into the history of the British
Empire in Ireland and examines the impact that political partition
has had on the organization of sport there. Paul Rouse assesses the
relationship between sport and national identity, how sport
influences policy-making in modern states, and the ways in which
sport has been colonized by the media and has colonized it in turn.
Each chapter of Sport and Ireland contains new research on the
place of sport in Irish life: the playing of hurling matches in
London in the eighteenth century, the growth of cricket to become
the most important sport in early Victorian Ireland, and the
enlistment of thousands of members of the Gaelic Athletic
Association as soldiers in the British Army during the Great War.
Rouse draws out the significance of animals to the Irish sporting
tradition, from the role of horse and dogs in racing and hunting,
to the cocks, bulls, and bears that were involved in fighting and
baiting.
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