SportHistoryIreland

Sport History Ireland is a society set up to encourage academic and popular study of the history of sport and sporting organisations in Ireland.

[Cormac Moore @cormacmoore]

As part of @HeritageWeek and based on a chapter of my upcoming book, Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland, I will be giving a talk on the impact of partition on sports in Ireland at Marino Library at 6:30pm on Monday, 19th August. https://t.co/zh9dvgysFS

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

Sounds like a great event for #NationalHeritageWeek by @museumofCP featuring @RichardMcELL talking sport, children and nationalism in pre-indepence Ireland!

[Richard McElligott @RichardMcELL]

Great event this Sunday @royalmarine for @museumofCP as part of #NationalHeritageWeek organised by @EmmaOToole2 I'll be sharing a stage with the brill Marnie Hay and @SarahAnneBuckle and discussing the history of sport, children and Irish nationalism @SportHisIre #twitterstorians

[Dr. Katie Liston @kliston14]

Interested in sport and society in partition-era Ireland? Panel discussion Sep 17th Belfast by @corrymeela funded @SEUPB featuring football, Gaelic games and athletics, by Dr Neal Garnham, Dr Donal McAnallen and myself. For more info and to register visit https://t.co/gItlFOp3xW

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

@liamoc81 of @LiverpoolHopeUK is organising this year's @BritSportHisSoc it takes place on 6th and 7th of September

Please follow this link for the Call for Papers: https://t.co/aOX7arAYHE

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

Fascinating new article in @IrishStudiesRev by @RichardMcELL looking at Irish nationalist appropriation of children's sport in late 19thC and early 20thC.
Free copy can be accessed at https://t.co/ShPz4W6GkW
#Sportshistory #irishhistory

[Richard McElligott @RichardMcELL]

Delighted my article exploring how Irish nationalists utilised children’s sport for their political and cultural campaigns between 1880-1920 is being published in @IrishStudiesRev @BAIrishStudies
People can access a free copy
https://t.co/XHxW9IEqZc
#Irishstudies #Irishhistory

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

Happy New Year to all, FYI check out this wonderful funded PhD opportunity in Irish Sports History based @UlsterUni under @kliston14 which will explore: Sports-Related Concussion: A Socio-Historical Analysis. Full details below:

https://t.co/O4SH8gtLqh

[Dr. Katie Liston @kliston14]

Pls RT. Opportunity for funded socio-historical doctoral research on #concussion in sport? See https://t.co/Ivm904FS8n for further info. Closing date 18 February

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

@RichardMcELL piece @Independent_ie on the forgotten history of the GAA men caught up in the War to End all Wars #Armistice100

[Richard McElligott @RichardMcELL]

My own small contribution to #ArmisticeDay100 commemorations, thanks to @Independent_ie @IndoSport for publishing the piece @Centenaries @officialgaa

A century on, GAA honours the fallen Gaels of Great War https://t.co/f4rMKEs3e2

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

@officialgaa is commemorating the centenary of the end of the Great War by highlighting 11 prominent GAA figures who served in that conflict.
First up is @RichardMcELL account of @Kerry_Official 1903 All-Ireland winner Charlie Duggan

https://t.co/7G0nisrWft

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

Brilliant afternoon of sports history yesterday as part of @HistFest @DCLAReadingRoom thanks to @cormacmoore @WillMurphy8 @L_Blaney @RichardMcELL and all the other great speakers!

[William Murphy @WillMurphy8]

The GAA and the Great War is the subject of @RichardMcELL at @DCLAReadingRoom @HistFest

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

What promises to be a great afternoon of sports history is taking place this Saturday @dubcilib Pearse St as part of @HistFest featuring talks by @RichardMcELL @cormacmoore @WillMurphy8 @L_Blaney and many more. Its free and full details are below:
https://t.co/7sZrvLGSgS

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

A brilliant piece of the island's sporting history taken for the @NatTreasuresIRL @NMIreland Paddy Bonner's Belfast Celtic jersey and a great blog on it by @RichardMcELL https://t.co/jRO1khIWVA

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

Some great blogs by the @NatTreasuresIRL curators @RTE_Culture including @RichardMcELL fascinating insight into Ireland's Tailteann Games, the largest sporting event in the world in 1924!
https://t.co/jHSUcRThci

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

An important part of the history of @officialgaa that shouldn't be forgotten:
https://t.co/v523kfjtdo

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

Great to see Ireland's sporting history being prominent during @NatTreasuresIRL @RTE programme the last few weeks and great to see our former chairman @RichardMcELL so heavily involved!
There's fascinating sporting objects in their digital archive:
https://t.co/KYQWQ5RKnn

[National Treasures @NatTreasuresIRL]

We are delighted to launch a new blog exploring the history around some of the objects received by @NatTreasuresIRL. First up, our sports curator @RichardMcELL explores the fascinating links between sport, politics and identity. Read it here: https://t.co/S5WNz6JbMq

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

The launch of Tom Hunt's, The Little Book of Irish Athletics, takes place @TheBookCentres Waterford, Friday, 8 December @6:30pm

It promises to be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the history of Irish athletics at national and international level.

[DCLA Reading Room @DCLAReadingRoom]

Delighted to be adding new material to our sports archive & seeing more & more researchers engage with sports & leisure history. #histsport @Playing_Pasts @SportHisIre @dccsportsrec https://t.co/vhjOfd2a5Q

[SportHistoryIreland @SportHisIre]

@conorgoalie new book, Irish Soccer Migrants: A Social and Cultural History, has its launch tomorrow evening at 6pm @BCDublin @CorkUP All welcome!

https://t.co/BKbLgtR0Wu

[DCLA Reading Room @DCLAReadingRoom]

Our Dublin City Sports Archive founded in 2010 continues to exand each year & to promote the collections we have two FREE events as part of #explorearchives 2017, relating to footballer Patrick O'Connell & Irish Ramblers Club Archive