List of LOI books

[jafrazer]

Shelbourne Cult Heroes: From Bulawayo to Ballybough (second edition)

[gspain]

Only books on Limerick

The End of an Era (Limerick at the Markets Field) 1984 - Aidan Corr & Bernard Spain (out of print now).

How Limerick won the League 1980 - Limerick Leader - match reports and photos of the 79/80 season again out of print.

[seand]

Another recent LoI book that is not on the old list is the autobiography of Cork legend Carl Davenport, available in at least some branches of Easons. Here's what I wrote about it elsewhere....

I recently picked up a the memoirs of former Cork Celtic and Cork Hibs player-manager Carl Davenport. “The Dav- Tales from Inside & Outside The Box” promises much but delivers little. Early on the author proudly claims that he wrote the book himself with no input from ghost writers or editors. It shows. What follows is a rambling, disjointed, clumsy stream-of-consciousness. Occasional unreliable mentions of football sit uncomfortably among charmless anecdotes of ‘hilarious’ nights out, ill thought out right-wing philosophising, awful jokes (helpfully suffixed with ‘ha ha’ for clarity), excruciatingly sentimental nostalgia for a bygone era of poverty and outside toilets, and plenty of name dropping. We are reminding half a dozen times in the open 40 pages that Davenport’s friend Alan Ball won the World Cup in 1966, while claims to be bosom buddies with George Best appear to stem from one chance meeting. This book has to go down as an opportunity lost. Davenport trained with Nat Lofthouse and struggled to make an impact at Bolton (not that The Dav would have you believe that) during the 60s as football’s became pop culture. He went on to score freely at non-league level before finding himself in Cork where he moulded an memorable football career… very little of which he seems to remember. The self-styled maverick socialite could happily have used his rock-n-roll lifestyle as a backdrop to his football story, but instead the very badly written rock-n-roll takes centre-stage. It’s a pity because there was a good book here waiting to be written. “The Dav- Tales from Inside & Outside The Box” is not it.