Sport and Ireland : a history / Paul Rouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rouse, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Ireland.

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Sport and Ireland: A History""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Sport and Ireland: An Introduction: 'The light died and they kept on playing'""; ""1: Sport Before 1800""; ""INVENTING THE PAST: SPORT IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND""; ""Hurling: Myth and Legend""; ""The Irish 'Invention' of Chess""; ""Popular Pastimes Before 1500""; ""HUNTING BEFORE 1800: FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN""; ""Hunting in Ireland Before 1500""; ""The Reinvention of Hunting After 1500""; ""The Primacy of Fox Hunting""

""THE WORLD OF POPULAR PLAY: 1500-1800""""Fighting Cocks and Baiting Bulls""; ""Football and Hurling""; ""Sport and Local Festivals after 1500""; ""The Irish Fair: Sport, Drinking, and Gambling""; ""Sport and the State""; ""SPORT IN URBANIZING IRELAND""; ""HORSE RACING AND THE MODERNIZATION OF IRISH SPORT""; ""Horse Racing and the Growth of Associational Culture""; ""The Jockey Club and the Turf Club""; ""THE SPREAD OF SPORTING CLUBS""; ""Cricket""; ""Hurling""; ""2: The Modernization of Irish Sport: 1800-1880""; ""THE DECLINE IN TRADITIONAL SPORTS""

""The Battle Against Cockfighting and Bull-baiting""""The Decline of Hurling""; ""THE GROWING COMMERCIALIZATION OF SPORT""; ""The Glory of Pugilism""; ""Horse Racing: Ireland's National Sport""; ""Ball Courts and Billiards Rooms: The Development of Dedicated Sporting Venues""; ""The Slow Rise of Sporting Clubs""; ""THE PHENOMENON OF IRISH CRICKET""; ""Cricket: Englishness and Irishness""; ""The Spread of Cricket in Ireland""; ""IRELAND AND THE INVENTION OF MODERN FOOTBALL""; ""The Birth of Soccer and Rugby""; ""Rugby and Ireland""; ""Belfast and the Birth of Irish Soccer""

""ATHLETICS AND ATHLETES, OLD AND NEW""""The College Races""; ""The Spread of Modern Athletics""; ""The Cult of the Amateur: Class and Culture""; ""The Rising People""; ""3: Contested Sports: Politics, War, and Women, 1880-1920""; ""SPORT IN THE EARLY 1880s""; ""New Clubs, New Grounds""; ""The Sporting Press""; ""THE FOUNDING OF THE GAELIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION""; ""Invention Myths""; ""The Attraction of Opposites: Michael Cusack and Maurice Davin""; ""The GAA and Athletics""; ""Hurling, Hurley, and Irishness""; ""A NEW BATTLE: GAELIC GAMES, SOCCER, AND RUGBY""

""The Battle for Control of Athletics in Ireland""""The Spread of Hurling""; ""The GAA and the Madness of Crowds""; ""Political Strife and the Collapse of the GAA""; ""The Growth of Rugby""; ""The Rise and Rise of Soccer""; ""Professionalism and Amateurism in Irish Sport""; ""SPORT AND GENDER""; ""Women in Irish Sport""; ""The Making of Camogie""; ""SPORT AND NATIONALISM""; ""The Irish and the Sporting Empire""; ""The GAA and a New Nationalism""; ""The Collapse of Cricket and the Prosperity of Rugby and Soccer""; ""The Passion for Play""; ""SPORT AND WAR""

""The GAA and the Militarization of Ireland""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-106303-7

0-19-180868-7

0-19-106302-9

OCLC:

915940227