Navigation

A History of the GAA in 100 Objects

Availability: In Stock
ISBN: 9781785374258
AuthorDoyle, Siobhan
Pub Date11/10/2022
BindingHardback
Pages240
CountryIRL
Dewey796.060415
Publisher: Merrion Press
Quick overview The Gaelic Athletic Association is a huge part of the Irish consciousness and plays an influential role in Irish society that extends far beyond the sports. In popular imagination and experience, the GAA is often evoked in terms of its objects: medals passed down from generation to generation, jerseys worn in All Ireland finals, Michael Cusack’s blackthorn stick, a pair of glasses damaged during the events of Bloody Sunday.
€24.95

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the GAA by assembling a range of objects from every county in Ireland, as well as overseas, to present a chronological history of the GAA that also functions as a social history of the people who have been involved in it.

From a fifteenth-century horsehair sliotar to a tweed camogie dress, Trevor Giles’s sleeveless jersey and Brian Cody’s baseball cap, all corners of the GAA world, personal and official, are explored and celebrated in A History of the GAA in 100 Objects.

Siobhán Doyle is a cultural historian and works in the National Museum of Ireland. She holds a PhD in Museum Studies from Technological University Dublin and has lectured in Design History. Siobhán is from Co. Wexford and has studied and worked in museums in Dublin for ten years. Her research focuses on modern Irish history and this is her first book.

*
*
*
Product description

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the GAA by assembling a range of objects from every county in Ireland, as well as overseas, to present a chronological history of the GAA that also functions as a social history of the people who have been involved in it.

From a fifteenth-century horsehair sliotar to a tweed camogie dress, Trevor Giles’s sleeveless jersey and Brian Cody’s baseball cap, all corners of the GAA world, personal and official, are explored and celebrated in A History of the GAA in 100 Objects.

Siobhán Doyle is a cultural historian and works in the National Museum of Ireland. She holds a PhD in Museum Studies from Technological University Dublin and has lectured in Design History. Siobhán is from Co. Wexford and has studied and worked in museums in Dublin for ten years. Her research focuses on modern Irish history and this is her first book.

Customers who bought this item also bought

Time and Tide

Bird, Charlie
9780008546755
A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird.
€19.88

More Midweek Meals: Delicious Ideas for Daily Dinner

Maguire, Neven
9780717195527
Neven Maguire has inspired thousands of families all around Ireland with practical and delicious ideas for daily dinners. Here he shares another 100 fantastic family favourites for Monday to Friday! Once again, this modern, family-friendly cookbook will inspire you to eat well every day
€25.99

Finucane And Me : My Life With Marian

Clarke, John
9780717195503
Finucane is a love story crossing borders and decades: the story of two people who ‘made a pact for madness’.
€22.99