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

Jerrold Casway coined the phrase “The Emerald Age of Baseball” to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams’ rosters. But one can easil

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland’s history. Perhaps nowhere else has sport so infused the political, social and cultural development and iden

Consides the relationship between sport, national identities and gender in a contemporary Irish context

Examines children's participation in sport, through physical education (PE) in schools, extra-curricular sport played in school, and sport played outside the sc