1st Edition
The League of Ireland An Historical and Contemporary Assessment
1. Introduction
Conor Curran
2. Association football in Dublin in the late nineteenth century: an overview
Julien Clenet
3. The formation of the Football Association of Ireland
Cormac Moore
4. ‘In the Ráth Camp, rugby or soccer would not have been tolerated by the prisoners’: Irish Civil War attitudes to sport, 1922–3
Aaron Ó Maonaigh
5. A League is born: the League of Ireland’s inaugural season, 1921–1922
Conor Heffernan and Joseph Taylor
6. The cross-border movement of Republic of Ireland-born footballers to Northern Ireland clubs, 1922–2000
Conor Curran
7. One-way traffic? 100 years of soldiers, mercenaries, refugees and other footballing migrants in the League of Ireland, 1920–2020
Gerard Farrell
8. Ireland’s footballers at the 1924 and 1948 Olympic Games: compromised by the politics of sport
Tom Hunt
9. Peter J. Peel: the soccer king
Michael Kielty
10. Who’s SARI now: social enterprise and the use of the medium of sport to further human rights in society
Ken Mc Cue
Biography
Conor Curran (Trinity College Dublin) has taught sports history at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester and at the University of Giessen and University of Marburg in Germany. He has published numerous articles and books on the history of Irish sport and is a former FIFA Havelange Research Scholar, an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and Dublin City Council football historian.
