Event details
'Going beyond the garrison game' explores the history of Association Football in Ireland from its introduction until the present.
Part one
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Andrew Toland (PRONI): PRONI's Football Archives |
Paul Gunning (Independent Scholar): The ‘Socker’ Code in Connacht, 1879-1906: Association Football in the Shamrock Shire’s Hy Brasil |
Aaron O'Maonaigh (Dublin City University): “Who were the Shoneens?”: Irish militant nationalists and association football, 1913-1923 |
Tom Hunt (Independent Scholar): Harry Cannon: a unique Irish sportsman and administrator |
Cormac Moore (De Montfort University): Football Unity During the Northern Ireland Troubles? |
Daniel Brown (Queen's University, Belfast): Linfield’s ‘Hawk of Peace’: pre-Ceasefires reconciliation in Irish League football |
Helena Byrne (Independent Scholar): How it all began: the story of women’s soccer in sixties Drogheda |
Part two
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Conor Curran (Dublin City University): The development of schoolboy coaching structures for association football in Ireland, 1945-1995 |
Mark Tynan (Independent Scholar): ‘Inciting the roughs of the crowd’: Soccer hooliganism in the south of Ireland during the inter-war period, 1919-1939 |
David Butler (University College Cork): Rule Changes and Incentives in the League of Ireland from 1970 – 2014 |