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Notes
1. For horse racing’s popularity with all classes of Irish people before the 1880s, see D’Arcy, Horses, Lords and Racing Men; Kelly, Sport; and Rouse, Sport and Ireland.
2. For a recent lively discussion of sport in Tipperary in the post-Famine decades, see Bracken, Sport in County Tipperary.
3. Griffin, Politics of Irish Athletics; and Rouse, Sport and Ireland, 141–143.
4. Bracken, “Foreign and Fantastic Field Sports”; Hunt, Westmeath, 113–140; Griffin, “Irish Cycling Clubs”; Griffin, “Big House at Play”; and Rouse, Sport and Ireland, 112–122.
5. The Irish Rifle Shooting Association, which was established in January 1867, was an exception to this rule.
6. This organisation received the prefix “Royal” in 1918.
7. de Búrca, Michael Cusack; de Búrca, The GAA; Mandle, “The IRB”; Mandle, GAA and Nationalist Politics; and Mandle, “GAA and Popular Culture.”
8. Rouse, “Politics of Culture and Sport in Ireland”; McElligott, “Politics or Play?”; McAnallen, “Michael Cusack”; Hassan and McGuire, “GAA and Revolutionary Irish Politics”; and Billings, “The First Minutes.”
9. Mandle, “GAA and Popular Culture.”
10. Nolan, GAA in Dublin; Hunt, Westmeath; McElligott, Forging a Kingdom; Curran, Sport in Donegal; and McCabe, “Gaelic Football in Cavan”. Hunt and Curran also examine such sports as cricket, association football, hockey and rugby.
11. Cronin, Sport and Nationalism; McDevitt, “May the Best Man Win”, 14–36; McAnallen, Hassan and Hegarty (eds), Evolution of the GAA; Duncan, “The Camera and the Gael”; McAnallen, “Role of Owen O’Duffy”; Garnham, “Early Success of the GAA”; and Billings, “Speaking Irish with Hurley Sticks.”
12. Ó Tuathaigh (ed), GAA and Revolution in Ireland. See also Murphy, “GAA during Irish Revolution.”
13. McElligott, “1916 and the GAA”; McElligott, “Contesting the Fields of Play”; McElligott, “Quenching the Prairie Fire”; Hassan and McGuire, “Gaelic Sunday”; Rouse and O’Carroll, “Sport and War”; and Rouse, The Hurlers.
14. McCarthy, Gold, Silver and Green.
15. O’Callaghan, Rugby in Munster.
16. Toms, Soccer in Munster; and Curran, “Networking Structures.”
17. Garnham, Association Football.
18. Higgins, Tennis; and Griffin, Cycling.
19. Garnham, “Roles of Cricket”; Garnham, “Heroes or Villains?”; Murphy, “Sinn Féin and the Hunt in Ireland”; Drücker, “Hunting and Shooting”; Higgins, “Pluperfect Respectability”; Ward, “Cockfighting”; Gunning, “Association Football in Connacht”; Gunning, “Hardy Fingallians”; O’Callaghan, “Rugby and First World War”; Montgomery, Gordon Bennett Race; Montgomery, Phoenix Park Speed Trials; Curran, “Networking Structures”; Ó Maonaigh, “Who were the Shoneens?”; and Curran, “Social Background.”
20. Hunt, “Polo.”
21. Dolan, “All Out.”
22. Curran, “Association Clubs in Cavan.”
23. Power, “Aspects of Sport in Clare”; Hunt, “Longford Sport”; O’Sullivan, Sport in Cork; Curran, Sport in Donegal; Finch, “Sport and Society in Kildare”; and Toms, “Sport and Society in Waterford.”
24. Hunt, Westmeath.
25. For some examples, see Ó Riain, Maurice Davin; Griffin, “Count Stadnicki”; Griffin, “William Millar Woodside”; Ó Baoghill, Nally; Hunt, “Peadar Cowan”; Hunt, “Walter Newburn”; Hunt, “Harry Cannon”; Caffrey, “Richard T. Blake”; McElligott, “Richard Blake”: Gillmeister, From Bonn to Athens; Garnham, “William Kennedy Gibson”; Hassan and McGuire, “Dick Fitzgerald”; Montgomery, Leslie Porter; Montgomery, R.J. Mecredy; Cronin, “Pat O’Callaghan”; Cronin, “Sam Maguire”; and Walsh, Sam Maguire.
26. Walker, Ireland’s Call; and Cooper, Final Whistle.
27. Moore, Irish Soccer Split.
28. Hunt, “National Athletic Association.”
29. Cronin, “Aonach Tailteann”; Cronin, “Projecting the Nation”; Ryan, “Aonach Tailteann”; and Rouse, Sport and Ireland, 245–255.
30. McCabe, “Football Sports Weekly”; O’Callaghan, “Rugby Football”; Toms, “Sport and Society in Waterford”; and Tynan, “Soccer Hooliganism.”
31. Relatively little has been written on the sports activity of either girls or women in Ireland in this period. For some rare examples, see Griffin “Cycling and Gender”; Hunt, “Women in Westmeath”; Nic Congáil, “Rise of Camogie”; Corry, “Camogie”; Fitzpatrick, Rouse and McAnallen, “Freedom of the Field”; and Rouse, Sport and Ireland, 197–205.
32. For contributions on this subject, see Griffin, “All Colours of the Rainbow”; Cronin, “Sam Maguire”; Strachan and Nally, Advertising, Literature and Print Culture, 88–107, 128–131; and Heffernan, “Strength Peddlers”. Cronin and Higgins’s Places We Play spans a longer period than that covered by this special issue – it offers an intriguing cultural history of the places where sports were participated in throughout Ireland.
