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Sport and the Irish: new histories*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2017

Liam O’Callaghan*
Affiliation:
School of Health Sciences, Liverpool Hope University

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Footnotes

*

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPORT IN DONEGAL 1880–1935. By Conor Curran. Pp 334. Cork: Cork University Press. 2015. €39.

THE IRISH SOCCER SPLIT. By Cormac Moore. Pp 312. Cork: Atrium. 2015. €25.

SPORT AND IRELAND: A HISTORY. By Paul Rouse. Pp 375. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. £30.

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