The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009 - Hardcover

Mike Cronin is the Academic Director of Boston College Ireland. He has written extensively on the cultural and sporting history of Ireland, and his works include: The Blueshirts and Irish Politics (1997), Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish National Identity Since 1884 (1999) and (with Daryl Adair), The Wearing of the Green. A History of St Patrick's Day (2002). He is currently working on a major oral history of the GAA and, for the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, a history of sporting heritage sites in Ireland. Paul Rouse lectures at UCD and works on the sporting and cultural history in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centurie. He is currently a director of the GAA Oral History Project and have written extensively about the history of the GAA. William Murphy is a lecturer in Irish Studies at Mater Dei Institute of Education, DCU, and is co-founder of Sports History Ireland. He has written on sports history and on the history of the Irish revolution. His Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1910-1921 will appear with Oxford University Press in 2010.