Third Annual Sports History Ireland Conference
Third Annual Sports History Ireland Conference
Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies
The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies,
National University of Ireland, Galway
16-17 February 2007
Conference Programme
Friday 16 February
11:00 – 11:30: Registration
11:30 – 12:30: Session 1
Chair: John Newell (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Joseph Moran Comdt (University College Dublin)
Physical Education in the City of Dublin VEC Schools
Ruadhán Cooke (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Sports Journalism as History / Sports Writing as Literature: Antoine Blondin and the Tour de France
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 15:00: Session 2
Chair: John Cunningham (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Jim Shanahan (Trinity College, Dublin)
Sean Burke, the ‘Lion of Lahinch’: an IRA man at the Walker Cup
Vic Rigby (Kingston University, London)
The Riddle of Ravenhill: Ireland's last rugby international in Belfast
William Murphy (Mater Dei)
Stopping the Hunt, again: Sinn Féin and the hunt, 1919
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee
15:30 – 17:00: Session 3
Chair: Mike Cronin (Boston College)
Dónal Mcanallen (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Gaelic games versus "Cromwell's game": the GAA and association football
in Derry City, 1884-1934
Conal Hooper (University College Dublin)
Sport in the works of James Joyce
Conor McCabe (University of Ulster)
When Saturday Comes: Football Sports Weekly and Irish Soccer, 1925-28
17:00 – 18:15: Official Conference Launch and Wine Reception
18:15 – 20:00: Session 4
Chair: Dick Holt (De Montfort University, Leicester)
Éamon Ó Cofaigh (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Le Mans: Hub of Motor Sport in France
Cathal Kilcline (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Les Bleus multicolores: Contesting identities in French Football
Phil Dine (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Sport and Identity in France: Practices, Locations, Representations.
(An ongoing project funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Saturday 17 February
09:30 – 11:00: Session 5
Chair: Nessa Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Timothy Harding (Trinity College, Dublin)
Batting on a sticky wicket: George Frith Barry and the growth of chess in
Victorian Ireland
Maeve Mulryan-Moloney (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Little Time for Gossiping and Loafing: Women in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Nick McCarthy (Murdoch University)
The Gaelic Athletic Association and Social Cohesion in County Cork
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee
11:30 – 12:30: Session 6
Chair: Tadhg Foley (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Seán Crosson (National University of Ireland, Galway)
From Knocknagow to West Cork: Representing Gaelic games in narrative Cinema
A special feature of this presentation will be the screening of the Oscar nominated Paramount Pictures short on hurling, Three Kisses (Justin Herman, 1955)
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 15:00: Session 7
Chair: Louis de Paor (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Kevin O’Sullivan (Trinity College, Dublin)
‘For the sake of sport and human decency’: sport and the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1964-74
Faye Kinirons (University of Limerick)
The spread, development and popularity of rugby in Limerick
Liam O’Callaghan (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Reflecting on the brave and the faithful’: the invention of tradition in Munster rugby
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee
15:30 – 17:00: Session 8
Chair: Gearoid O'Tuathaigh, (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Neal Garnham (University of Ulster)
How to become an Irish sporting hero: lessons from Dan Donnelly
Paul Rouse (University College Dublin)
Michael Cusack and the Freedom of the Press
Dil Porter (De Montfort University, Leicester)
‘They think it’s all over. It ain’t over’ (Jake Arnott): some reflections on football and banal nationalism
17:00: Close of Conference
