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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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editors’ note
- Introduction by Paul Rouse
- Brede Arkless by Terry Clavin
- George Baillie by Helen Andrews
- George Best by Lawrence William White
- Harry Bradshaw by Jim Shanahan
- Mabel Cahill by Paul Rouse
- Johnny Carey by James Quinn
- Steve ‘Crusher’ Casey by Jim Shanahan
- Jack Charlton by Paul Rouse
- Nina Coote by Patrick M. Geoghegan
- Clara (‘Ma’) Copley by Miles Templeton
- Michael Cusack by James Quinn
- Beauchamp Day by Jim Shanahan and Terry Clavin
- Jack Dempsey by Lawrence William White
- Dan Donnelly by Paul Rouse
- Jack Doyle by Paul Rouse
- John Doyle by Terry Clavin
- Henry Dunlop by Turlough O’Riordan
- Joey Dunlop by Harry Havelin
- Shay Elliott by Paul Rouse
- Dick Fitzgerald by Marie Coleman
- Dave Gallaher by Turlough O’Riordan
- Philomena Garvey by Linde Lunney
- Mollie Gill by William Murphy
- Ken Goodall by Turlough O’Riordan
- Vere Goold by Tom Higgins
- Lady Mary Heath by Bridget Hourican
- Kevin Heffernan by Marc Duncan
- May Hezlet by John Rouse and Terry Clavin
- Alex (‘Hurricane’) Higgins by James Quinn
- Tom Horan by Turlough O’Riordan
- Moss Keane by James Quinn
- Iris Kellett by Terry Clavin
- Jack Kyle by Liam O’Callaghan
- John Fortune Lawrence by Turlough O’Riordan
- Elizabeth Le Blond by Carol A. Osborne
- Beatrice Hill-Lowe by Turlough O’Riordan
- Bill McCracken by Jim Shanahan
- Mike McTigue by Jim Shanahan
- Kay Mills by Mary Moran
- Tony Mullane by Lawrence William White
- Terry Mullen by Jim Shanahan
- Anne O’Brien by Helena Byrne
- Vincent O’Brien by P. Gerry McKenna
- Pat O’Callaghan by Paul Rouse
- Nannie Power O’Donoghue by Bridget Hourican
- Kevin O’Flanagan by Turlough O’Riordan
- Joan O’Reilly by Turlough O’Riordan
- Paddy Perry by Jim Shanahan
- Sean Purcell by Terry Clavin
- Nicky Rackard by Lawrence William White
- Christy Ring by John A. Murphy
- John Ryan by Terry Clavin
- Elisha Scott by Des McCabe
- Molly Seaton by Steve Bolton
- Martin Sheridan by Paul Rouse
- Jim Smith by Jim Shanahan and Terry Clavin
- Jim Stynes by Derek Barry
- Pat Taaffe by Des McCabe
- Fay Taylour by Niav Gallagher
- Sim Walton by Jim Shanahan
- Image credits
- Acknowledgements
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