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Author Rouse, Paul, author.

Title Sport and Ireland : a history / Paul Rouse
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Contents Sport and Ireland: an introduction: 'the light died and they kept on playing' -- Sport before 1800: Inventing the past: sport in medieval Ireland -- Hunting before 1800: from medieval to modern -- The world of popular play: 1500-1800 -- Sport in urbanizing Ireland: Horse racing and the modernization of Irish sport -- The spread of sporting clubs -- The modernization of Irish sport: 1800-1880: The decline in traditional sports -- The growing commercialization of sport -- The phenomenon of Irish cricket -- Ireland and the invention of modern football -- Athletics and athletes, old and new -- Contested sports: politics, war, and women, 1880-1920: sport in the early 1880s -- The founding of the Gaelic athletic association -- A new battle: Gaelic games, soccer, and rugby -- Sport and gender -- Sport and nationalism -- Sport and war -- Sport on a partitioned island: 1920 to the new millenium: Back to the future: the Tailteann Games -- Flying the flag: Irish sport after partition -- The joy of sport -- Sport in boom and bust -- Sport and the state -- Conclusion: the meaning of sport in a new millenium -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This history of sport in Ireland, locates it within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. There are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are uniquely Irish, but it is a history of play shared with other societies, near and far. This book offers a unique insight into the British Empire in Ireland; it also assesses the relationship between sport and national identity, and the manner in which states make policy in respect of sport. The manner in which sport has been colonised by the media and has colonised it, in turn, is also examined
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 10, 2015)
Subject Sports -- Ireland
Sports -- Ireland -- History
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Sports
Ireland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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