Atlas of Irish Sport: History, Politics, Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781782050834)

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Atlas of Irish Sport: History, Politics, Identity

$75.00

Atlas of Irish Sport: History, Politics, Identity

$75.00
Format: Hardcover
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Sport is part of the fabric of Irish history and society, tied to people and place, as well as to ever-changing conceptions and understandings of what it means to be Irish.

Atlas of Irish Sport: History, Politics, Identity explores the story of Irish sport in all its richness, diversity and complexity. It reveals how the modern sporting landscape in Ireland has formed across the centuries by charting its evolution through periods of medieval upheaval, conquest, colonisation, famine, empire, rebellion, independence, partition and civil war. Focusing on the communities, regions and individuals central to that narrative, it delves deep into the wider geographical, cultural, social, economic, and political contexts in which the games emerged and the different and ofttimes contested trajectories that they have followed.

Featuring original contributions from over eighty scholars, researchers, sports journalists, broadcasters, cultural heritage professionals, artists and writers; across forty-seven chapters, case studies, new maps, archival documents, photographs, paintings and more, the Atlas showcases the remarkable breadth and scope of Ireland's sporting culture both at home and on the international stage.

This latest landmark volume in the award-winning Atlas Series is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, culture and geography of Irish sport.



Author: John Crowley
ISBN-10: 1782050833
ISBN-13: 9781782050834
Publisher: Cork University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2027
Pages: 912
Format: Hardcover
By John Crowley
By John Crowley
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Mike Cronin is the Academic Director of Boston College in Ireland. He has written widely on the sporting and social history of Ireland. His recent publications include, with Mark Duncan, Revolutionary Times - Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation (Merrion, 2024) and, with Kevin Tallec Marston, Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer and the Origins of a National Myth (University of Massachusetts Press, 2025).


John Crowley is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, School of the Human Environment, University College Cork. His main research interests focus on the cultural and historical geography of Ireland. He jointly edited the award-winning Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (2012) as well as the Atlas of the Irish Revolution which was named Irish Book of the Year in 2017. He has also worked on a series of widely acclaimed documentaries based on the atlas publications. He is currently a member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland.


Cormac Moore is founder and director of the history consultancy company History Link. He has published widely on modern Irish history, including the books The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission (2025), Laois: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 (2025), Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland (2019) and The Irish Soccer Split (2015). He is a columnist with the Belfast-based The Irish News as well as editor of its daily 'On This Day' segment. He co-presents the Irish History Boys podcast show with Tim McGarry.


Charlie Roche is a geographer/GIS cartographer with Mobile GIS Ltd. He has contributed maps to the Atlas of the Irish Revolution and related online projects while also digitising the historical parishes and towns of Ireland which formed the basis for many of maps in the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine.

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