GAAconomics

Author: Michael Moynihan
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717154548
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
A unique sports book which will ensure you never again look at hurling and football the same way. Michael Moynihan talks frankly to current and recent players and gets the inside story on how money courses through the GAA. The greatest amateur sports association in the world? Michael Moynihan takes a look behind the scenes to reveal the truth about the GAA and looks for answers to the awkward questions. Why won't hurling and Gaelic football become professional? What would it cost to complete Croke Park? What's the economic benefit of winning an All-Ireland? What would it have cost the GAA not to host rugby and soccer? Who gets paid? What are the spin-offs for players? And, by the way, what county supporters really bring their own sandwiches to the All-Ireland final?

The GAA v Douglas Hyde

Author: Cormac Moore
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848899742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
On 13 November 1938, just months after his inauguration, President Douglas Hyde attended a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. In a passionate reaction, the GAA declared that by attending a 'foreign game', he had broken Rule 27 – the Ban – and they removed him as patron. One of the most controversial incidents in recent GAA history, it strained relations between the GAA and Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil government. It also damaged the standing of the Ban and was used extensively by opponents to argue for its removal.

My First Book of Gaa

Author: Joe Butler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788490634
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
You're never too young to learn the essentials of GAA! This board book is perfect for the little all-star in your life, no matter which county you live in. Sliotar, boots, point, goal, helmet, bainisteoir and the rest: it's all in My First Book of GAA! With simple text and pictures, this bright and colourful book is perfect for the youngest GAA fan - no matter who you cheer for!

The GAA and the War of Independence

Author: Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786697025
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of the twentieth century onwards. In 1914, the Irish Volunteers drilled with hurley sticks in the absence of rifles; after the 1916 Rising many of those interned by the British were GAA members; and on 21 November 1920, a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary at Croke Park was interrupted by a raid by British crown forces that left fourteen dead in Ireland's first 'Bloody Sunday'. With affection and authority, Tim Pat Coogan traces the stirring story of an institution which, from modest beginnings as a grass-roots sporting organisation, has grown into a cornerstone of Irish society both North and South. The Gaelic Athletic Association is, Coogan argues, the most socially valuable organisation in Ireland, whose ideal of voluntarism has contributed to a distinctive sense of national identity that flourishes wherever green is worn.

When the World Stops Watching

Author: Damian Lawlor
Publisher: Black & White Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785303252
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
As every sportsperson knows, the dream can’t go on forever. After years of dedication, sacrifice and single-minded obsession to get to the top, one day it all has to end. When the World Stops Watching tells the real inside stories of what happened next for sixteen Irish sports stars, as they faced the brand-new challenges of normal life. From the highs of Grand Slam rugby, World Cup football, the Olympic Games, European Tour golf and GAA stardom, these born competitors recount the seismic aftershocks of retirement and the effect it had on them, both physically and mentally. The lives of sporting icons can change overnight. This is a searingly honest and compelling account of what life is really like after the game. FEATURING TOMMY BOWE • PAUL CARBERRY • KEVIN DOYLE • PAUL FLYNN • TREVOR HOGAN • MARCUS HORAN • PAUL McGEE • GARY MURPHY • GRÁINNE MURPHY • DONNCHA O’CALLAGHAN • DARREN O’NEILL • SONIA O’SULLIVAN • LINDSAY PEAT • NIALL QUINN • SHANE SUPPLE • NIKKI SYMMONS

SPORT, SECTARIANISM AND SOCIETY

Author: John Sugden
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780718500184
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
This text examines the political nature of sport and leisure in Northern Ireland as an (often overlooked) aspect of the divided community. The politics of partition are integral to the rivalry between clubs, to the support the clubs receive, and even to the very choice of games played and watched.

The Players' Advice

Author: Sean O'Sullivan
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1788493095
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
Do you play GAA? Do you feel there's something missing from your game? Do you want to improve as a player and athlete? The Players' Advice is a compilation of guidance aimed at you, the player, to give you the tools and disciplines to improve and excel in your code. With advice from over 100 of the top footballers, hurlers and camogie players in a range of areas such as gym, nutrition, routine, lifestyle, skill development, mindset and preparation. Features players from goalkeeper to full forward from every code, and from nearly every county in Ireland. Advice and tips cover a broad range of areas - from nutrition to rest days to a player's mental attitude to training and match days. Selected images throughout.

Sport and Entrepreneurship

Author: Dilwyn Porter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000051056
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport. This important volume offers clearer definitions of both sports products and sports entrepreneurship, gives due regard to social entrepreneurs, and assesses the continuing relevance of Hardy’s pioneering study from the 1980s. Hardy himself provides an introduction to the volume, and chapters by Wray Vamplew and Dilwyn Porter supply an overarching theoretical framework, offering new ways of identifying and describing sports-related entrepreneurial activity. Each chapter explores a particular case study, focusing on specific examples of entrepreneurship as it has been practised in a variety of sporting contexts from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, ranging from 19th century equestrianism, to 20th century ice hockey, and football in the 21st century and covering entrepreneurship in North America, Europe and the United Kingdom. Each, in its own way, adds depth and complexity to the discussion. Bridging the gap between sports history and business history, too often seen as separate spheres, Sport and Entrepreneurship will be of great interest to scholars of sport history, business and sport, business history, and entrepreneurship. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Nationalism and the Irish Party

Author: Michael Wheatley
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191556838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
John Redmond's constitutional, parliamentary, Irish Party went from dominating Irish politics to oblivion in just four years from 1914-1918. The goal of limited Home Rule, peacefully achieved, appeared to die with it. Given the speed of the party's collapse, its death has been seen as inevitable. Though such views have been challenged, there has been no detailed study of the Irish Party in the last years of union with Britain, before the world war and the Easter Rising transformed Irish politics. Through a study of five counties in provincial Ireland - Leitrim, Longford, Roscommon, Sligo, and Westmeath - that history has now been written. Far from being 'rotten', the Irish Party was representative of nationalist opinion and still capable of self-renewal and change. However, the Irish nationalism at this time was also suffused with a fierce anglophobia and sense of grievance, defined by its enemies, which rapidly came to the fore, first in the Home Rule crisis and then in the war. Redmond's project, the peaceful attainment of Home Rule, simply could not be realised.

Who Owns Football?

Author: David Hassan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317996364
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many sporting competitions and institutions, undermining the financial future of clubs in their traditional role as key social and cultural institutions. This has been manifested in the paradox of chronic financial loss-making amongst professional sports’ clubs in an era of exponential revenue growth, a trend exemplified by the experience of Italy’s Series A and the English Premier League – both cases examined in detail in this book. But, at the same time, some traditional sporting organizations have sought with some success, to chart a middle way, retaining traditional sporting movement objectives whilst also embracing a form of commercialism. The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, the supporter-owned FC Barcelona football club, and New Zealand rugby union, offer illustrative examples of such strategies examined in detail. This book explores the background to this clash of commercial and traditional sporting objectives, and debates the consequences for wider sports governance. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.