Connacht / West History

[A face]

http://www.connacht-sl.netne.net/index.html

[historynut]

Stumbled on site myself,
Great history and whoever is behind it deserves a pat on the back.
I myself have nearly got a correct list of all finalists for Connacht Junior finals.

[littlebray]

http://www.connacht-sl.netne.net/index.html

Link is now dead

[TheBoss]

Link is now dead

Ah, the wonders of the internet!

http://web.archive.org/web/20131121035839/http://www.connacht-sl.netne.net/index.html

[seand]

Ah, the wonders of the internet!

http://web.archive.org/web/20131121035839/http://www.connacht-sl.netne.net/index.html

Jaysus that's a brilliant website. Will have to grab the relevant info before it disappears from web archive too.

[littlebray]

Ah, the wonders of the internet!

http://web.archive.org/web/20131121035839/http://www.connacht-sl.netne.net/index.html

Didn't take you long! Maybe I gave up too easily ...

[historynut]

Someone has helped by posting in Wikipedia details of Connacht junior cup finals

[BelfastCrusader]

You may be interested in research by Paul Gunning published last year about soccer in Connacht. It is rather idiosyncratically entitled Association Football in the Shamrock Shire’s Hy Brasil: The ‘Socker’ Code in Connacht, 1879–1906 and written in rather unusual style, but it presents clear evidence of very early association football in Sligo: a 'first phase' from 1879-82 and then again from 1887.

Very significant stuff. Unfortunately if you don't have access to the Soccer & Society journal there is a fee to read it.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1230346?journalCode=fsas20

(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1230346?journalCode=fsas20)

[historynut]

Re last post, for those interested in early soccer history in Ireland will find this a very interesting read.