Irish sporting lives
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Irish sporting lives

  1. 427 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Irish sporting lives

About this book

Serial winners and glorious losers, heroes andvillains, trailblazing women, role models and rogues, all are here; so too are audacious sporting founders, enduring legends and forgotten or overlookedgreats. Through a selection of sixty lives from theDictionary of Irish Biography, this book celebrates thediversity of Irish sporting history.The Dictionary of IrishBiography is a project of theRoyal Irish Academy. It tellsthe island's life story throughthe biographies, at home andoverseas, of prominent menand women born in Ireland, north and south, and thenoteworthy Irish careers ofthose born outside Ireland.The online edition of theDictionary of Irish Biographynow features nearly 11, 000lives and continues to grow. dib.ie

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Publisher
Royal Irish Academy
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781911479635
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Editors’ note
  3. Introduction
  4. Brede Arkless
  5. George Baillie
  6. George Best
  7. Harry Bradshaw
  8. Mabel Cahill
  9. Johnny Carey
  10. Steve ‘Crusher’ Casey
  11. Jack Charlton
  12. Nina Coote
  13. Clara (‘Ma’) Copley
  14. Michael Cusack
  15. Beauchamp Day
  16. Jack Dempsey
  17. Dan Donnelly
  18. Jack Doyle
  19. John Doyle
  20. Henry Dunlop
  21. Joey Dunlop
  22. Shay Elliott
  23. Dick Fitzgerald
  24. Dave Gallaher
  25. Philomena Garvey
  26. Mollie Gill
  27. Ken Goodall
  28. Vere Goold
  29. Lady Mary Heath
  30. Kevin Heffernan
  31. May Hezlet
  32. Alex (‘Hurricane’) Higgins
  33. Tom Horan
  34. Moss Keane
  35. Iris Kellett
  36. Jack Kyle
  37. John Fortune Lawrence
  38. Elizabeth Le Blond
  39. Beatrice Hill-Lowe
  40. Bill McCracken
  41. Mike McTigue
  42. Kay Mills
  43. Tony Mullane
  44. Terry Mullen
  45. Anne O’Brien
  46. Vincent O’Brien
  47. Pat O’Callaghan
  48. Nannie Power O’Donoghue
  49. Kevin O’Flanagan
  50. Joan O’Reilly
  51. Paddy Perry
  52. Sean Purcell
  53. Nicky Rackard
  54. Christy Ring
  55. John Ryan
  56. Elisha Scott
  57. Molly Seaton
  58. Martin Sheridan
  59. Jim Smith
  60. Jim Stynes
  61. Pat Taaffe
  62. Fay Taylour
  63. Sim Walton
  64. Image credits
  65. Acknowledgements
  66. Index

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