Ireland Soccer World Champions 1914

THE 9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SPORTS HISTORY IRELAND

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‘Deining Ireland 1934-56’

Trevor Parkhill (Independent Scholar)

‘Pitching our Past to the Present: The Case for an Ulster Sports Museum’

Seamus Morris (De Montfort University) ‘Rory McIlroy – Rio 2016, His Toughest Shot Yet’

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David Toms (UCC)

‘Waterford Your Hour has Arrived: Soccer’s Development in Waterford, 1924-1937’

Paul Gunning (Independent Scholar)

‘Pot Hunters, Poor Puss and Laws of the Leash - Hare Coursing in late Victorian mid-Connacht’

Sarah Duncan (Queen Mary University, London) ‘Sweet Wine and Roses.

Preparing a Racehorse for the Palio in Renaissance Italy’

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Eoghan Corry (Independent Scholar) ‘Chasing Steeples: A Religious History of Irish

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Ida Milne (Independent Scholar) ‘The Quiet Corner Back: How Rural Protestants Contributed to the GAA within

the 26 counties’

Mark Reynolds (Mater Dei Institute) ‘The G.A.A. and the 1980 Hunger Strike’

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Tom Feeney (UCD)

‘The Diaspora at Play? Celtic Football Club in its Golden Age’

Frances Harkin (Queen’s University) ‘The Exiles: The Gaelic Athletic Association

in London’

Keith Beattie (Ballymoney Museum) ‘Reviving ‘Marathon Mac’’

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Declan O’Keefe (Clongowes Wood College) ‘‘‘All the Other Boots and Legs Ran After’’, The Long Life and Slow Death of ‘‘Gravel’’

Football’

Clodagh Doyle & Paul Mullarkey (National Museum of Ireland)

‘Hair of the Bog- An Examination of the Collection of Early Hair Hurling Balls in the

National Museum of Ireland’

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Cormac Moore (UCD)

‘Ireland – Soccer World Champions 1914’

Mark Tynan (NUI Maynooth) ‘A Game Which Destroys the Tedium of Work for Working men’: The Character of the

Association Football Community in the Irish Free State’

Conor Curran (St Patrick’s College) ‘Irish Born Players in Britain’s Football

Leagues, 1945-2010: A Geographical Assessment’

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Ciaran Priestly (NUI Maynooth) ‘Harold Sloan: A Forgotten Soldier’

Mike McGuinness (University of Teeside) ‘Viva Espagne. Three Irish Sportsmen at the

Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)’

Liam O’Callaghan (Liverpool Hope University)

‘Irish Rugby and the First World War’

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Adrian Devine & Clare Carruthers (University of Ulster)

‘Back to the Future – Analysing History to Plan for Tomorrow’

Les Street (Independent Scholar) ‘VFL Ground Rationalisation in Melbourne

from an Urban Planning Perspective’

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Richard McElligott (UCD)

‘Quenching the Prairie Fire, The National Collapse of the GAA in 1890s Ireland.’

David Hassan (University of Ulster)

‘Dick Fitzgerald – Sporting and Political Revolutionary’

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Michael Kennedy (UCD) ‘The Origins of Lacrosse in Ireland’

Daryl Leeworthy (University of Huddersield)

‘The Other Game of War: Empire, Identity, and Ireland’s Pursuit of Lacrosse in the Nineteenth Century’