
- 427 pages
- English
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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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Editorsâ note
- Introduction
- Brede Arkless
- George Baillie
- George Best
- Harry Bradshaw
- Mabel Cahill
- Johnny Carey
- Steve âCrusherâ Casey
- Jack Charlton
- Nina Coote
- Clara (âMaâ) Copley
- Michael Cusack
- Beauchamp Day
- Jack Dempsey
- Dan Donnelly
- Jack Doyle
- John Doyle
- Henry Dunlop
- Joey Dunlop
- Shay Elliott
- Dick Fitzgerald
- Dave Gallaher
- Philomena Garvey
- Mollie Gill
- Ken Goodall
- Vere Goold
- Lady Mary Heath
- Kevin Heffernan
- May Hezlet
- Alex (âHurricaneâ) Higgins
- Tom Horan
- Moss Keane
- Iris Kellett
- Jack Kyle
- John Fortune Lawrence
- Elizabeth Le Blond
- Beatrice Hill-Lowe
- Bill McCracken
- Mike McTigue
- Kay Mills
- Tony Mullane
- Terry Mullen
- Anne OâBrien
- Vincent OâBrien
- Pat OâCallaghan
- Nannie Power OâDonoghue
- Kevin OâFlanagan
- Joan OâReilly
- Paddy Perry
- Sean Purcell
- Nicky Rackard
- Christy Ring
- John Ryan
- Elisha Scott
- Molly Seaton
- Martin Sheridan
- Jim Smith
- Jim Stynes
- Pat Taaffe
- Fay Taylour
- Sim Walton
- Image credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index