Irish Sporting Lives

Serial winners and glorious losers, heroes and
villains, trailblazing women, role models and rogues,
all are here; so too are audacious sporting founders,
enduring legends and forgotten or overlooked
greats. Through a selection of sixty lives from the
Dictionary of Irish Biography, this book celebrates the
diversity of Irish sporting history.

The Dictionary of Irish
Biography is a project of the
Royal Irish Academy. It tells
the island's life story through
the biographies, at home and
overseas, of prominent men
and women born in Ireland,
north and south, and the
noteworthy Irish careers of
those born outside Ireland.
The online edition of the
Dictionary of Irish Biography
now features nearly 11,000
lives and continues to grow.
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