'I love me county' : Waterford sporting stories
Manning, Cian
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'I love me county' : Waterford sporting stories / Cian Manning
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Inphrionta:
U.K. : The History Press, 2024
Leathanaigh in ord:
240p : ill photos ; 24cm
Nótaí:
Introduction‘Savage manners and inhuman barbarity’ : Bull-baiting at Ballybricken 1714-1826‘The hub of hikers’ : Waterford and rambling 1775-1930Johnny Ryan (1826-1907) : Portlaw’s pre-eminent sportsman Hugh Collender : Cappoquin sports manufacturer and rebelPatrick Hearne : ‘The Gambler’The Irish Giant ‘who gained notoriety if not fame as a pugilist’ : Lismore’s Ned O’Baldwin (1840-75)Vere Thomas St Leger Goold (1853-1909( : Waterford tennis player and Monte Carlo murderer‘Died of Inanition’ :County Waterford archery club 1860-65Thomas Jospeh Dart Kelly : Waterford man and Aussie CricketerJoe Tracy : America’s greatest race car driverWaterford’s first hurling revival : 1884-1934Patrick Street : Pugilism and preaching : stories of Arthur ClampettDungarvan was his hometown : Shaw Desmond (Author and Spiritualist)To the Waterford coast and along it : Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)‘The palm of superiority’ handball in Waterford 1887-1911Heavyweight boxing : the champion of the world visits Waterford, December 1887Jack Mitchell : ‘the man with the plate in his head’‘Urbs Intacta was supposed to be at stake’ : Oxford and the Waterford City Regatta, 15 July 1890‘A cycling carnival’ : Ireland v England, People’s Park, Waterford 11th August 1891T.O. Jameson : the captain at CappoquinDan Cooney : ‘Our Dan’ from near DungarvanThe Wild Man from Borneo : Grand National Winner, 1895‘The first Waterford men to win All-Ireland medals’ : Jack Dwan and Larry Tobin, Tipperary footballers‘Battling Brannigan’ : the story of Gerald HurleyAn American millionaire at Waterford Harbour‘Aesthetic appeal’ : the many lives of Edward Augustine McGuire (1901-92)‘I fail to see why we cannot play polo’ : Waterford Polo Club, 1904-06Patrick Joseph Mahon : forgotten world no. 1 golfer?‘Old men and novices’ : roller hockey in Waterford 1910-85Danny Morgan : Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning jockey and trainerCamogie in County Waterford, 1913-17Matt O’Mahoney : Kilkenny soccer pioneer‘Sleeping draught’ : Michael Lacey, the forgotten contenderCheck mate : Austin Bourke, chess and the Irish weatherDungarvan’s Denis Kelleher : an ‘unpredictable Irishman’‘Non-political bosh’ : Gaelic Games abandoned at the Sportsfield, 21 October 1923A portrait of my grandfather as a young manWaterford hockey players tour America, 1925Waterford City : Munster Junior Cup Winners, 1928A tale of two millionaires : Donagh and Capelli, 1937-38Josie McNamara : Waterford’s queen of sport‘Ideally suited to the Irish temperament’ : Waterford Fencing Club – 1948-73Colonel James Flynn : Irish Olympic basketballerWaterford FC in Iveland, May-June 1953Mutiny on a Boundary, The Blyth Affair, Waterford 1954Waterford and District Table Soccer League, 1957-60Suirsiders, Sliotars and the Silver Screen : Hollywood and the 1957 All-Ireland HurlingFinalSea Lions and Walruses : Baseball in Tramore and Waterford City, 1958-66The Brown Bomber at the Arch in TallowWaterford Ladies Soccer League, 1967-70‘Sell a dummy’ : Louis Fallone : Failed Waterford trialist and Diego MaradonaPoles apart : Piotr Suski, Wlodzimierz Lubanski and the League of IrelandCeltic Squash Club :’a great Waterford nursery’Alma Delahunty : Ruanmhor Runai (1981-85)Samba in the South-East : A Brazilian in the League of IrelandJames Phelan (BMX rider) : Deise daredevilGrace Doyle :’the stoke and love of surfing’Evan Power : the future of Irish poloEpilogueAcknowledgements
ISBN:
1803992557
Rangúchán Dewey:
796.094191
I dteanga:
English
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BRN:
3542451
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Áirithint áit ar 'I love me county' : Waterford sporting stories