No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities

by James Quinn

From its earliest days, Association Football was seen not just as a contest between individuals and teams, but also between nations and peoples. The Irish national team was among the first in the world to participate in international competition in the early 1880s, but not everyone accepted it as a truly national entity. Sport in Ireland was disputed ground in a manner that was not the case elsewhere - even the term ' football' itself was a contested...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785374737
• ISBN13: 9781785374739
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Merrion Press
• Length: 400 Pages