Sport and Ireland - Paul Rouse

Sport and Ireland

A History

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Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-874590-7 (ISBN)
65,95 inkl. MwSt
The first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. It studies the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policy-making in modern states, and the ways in which sport has been colonized by the media.
This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are uniquely Irish and are defined by the peculiarities of life on a small island on the edge of Europe. What is equally apparent, though, is that the Irish sporting world is unique only in part; much of the history of Irish sport is a shared history with that of other societies.

Drawing on an unparalleled range of sources - government archives, sporting institutions, private collections, and more than sixty local, national, and international newspapers - this volume offers a unique insight into the history of the British Empire in Ireland and examines the impact that political partition has had on the organization of sport there. Paul Rouse assesses the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policy-making in modern states, and the ways in which sport has been colonized by the media and has colonized it in turn.

Each chapter of Sport and Ireland contains new research on the place of sport in Irish life: the playing of hurling matches in London in the eighteenth century, the growth of cricket to become the most important sport in early Victorian Ireland, and the enlistment of thousands of members of the Gaelic Athletic Association as soldiers in the British Army during the Great War. Rouse draws out the significance of animals to the Irish sporting tradition, from the role of horse and dogs in racing and hunting, to the cocks, bulls, and bears that were involved in fighting and baiting.

Paul Rouse is a lecturer in the School of History at University College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of sport in Ireland for more than twenty years. A former award-winning journalist with Prime Time Investigates on RTÉ television, he regularly contributes to current affairs and sports programmes on radio and television, as well as writing in the press.

INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: SPORT BEFORE 1800; CHAPTER TWO: THE MODERNIZATION OF IRISH SPORT: 1800-1880; CHAPTER THREE: CONTESTED SPORTS: POLITICS, WAR AND WOMEN, 1880-1920; CHAPTER FOUR: SPORT ON A PARTITIONED ISLAND, 1920-; CONCLUSION

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.10.2015
Zusatzinfo 22 black and white images
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 239 mm
Gewicht 749 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-874590-7 / 0198745907
ISBN-13 978-0-19-874590-7 / 9780198745907
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