The Club

By Christy O'Connor

This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest a great story brilliantly told.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014139966X
• ISBN13: 9780141399669
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.1"