Are there any new books on the Irish team?

**bwagner** · 17/05/2006, 12:51 PM

Is there any new books on the irish team?
Or any good old material.
I never see the fai doing much publishing compared to all the rugby and gaa books , magazines etc................................

**Paulie** · 17/05/2006, 1:30 PM

Tony Cascarino's autobiography is one of the better ones. It's out a few years now but it's definitely worth a read.

**bwagner** · 17/05/2006, 1:38 PM

thanks paulie

**bwagner** · 18/05/2006, 6:57 AM

Great Help Guys

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**Donal81** · 18/05/2006, 2:40 PM

Originally Posted by bwagner

Is there any new books on the irish team?
Or any good old material.
I never see the fai doing much publishing compared to all the rugby and gaa books , magazines etc................................

Niall Quinn's book is a good read. Cascarino's is excellent. Laptop Dancing and the Nannygoat Mambo by Tom Humphries is, at times, brilliant.

**John83** · 18/05/2006, 5:13 PM

To attempt to avoid derailing the thread further, I'll suggest Red Mist: Roy Keane And the Irish World Cup Blues - a Fan's Story by Conor O'Callaghan, which was published rairly recently.

There's also Ireland's Soccer Top 20 by Colm Keane. I got it for Christmas. It's okay, if a bit dull overall.

Edited by Dodge; removed the petty grammar/language debate(s)

**stojkovic** · 19/05/2006, 12:49 AM

"The Garrison Game" from about 7/8 years ago.
"We were there" fans book from Euro88 and updated for WC90.

**onenilgameover** · 19/05/2006, 12:53 AM

he is a list of books I have recent or not.

Only a game - Dunphy
Tony Cascarino's Bio
Paul Mc G's bio The black pearl
Aldo's bio
Big Jack's bio
Langer's bio
Quinn's bio (about langers bio)
other book langers bio mark 2
''The Gaffers'' Book on messers keane and mc carthy (bol!ox)
The Team that jack built (not bad)
Jack Charton cica 1994 by Tom Humphries
Jack Charltons WC diary 90 and 94
75 years a history of the FAI (out in 96 or around then)
Behind the Green door (awful stuff)
A nation holds its breath (football quotes out recently)
McCarthy's WC Diary
Gifted in green
Whats the story? fans stories
Bobby Robson's bio (not really to do with us but good read)
Brady's bio
loads of peter byrnes wonderous words in there... lol

Might be one or two more...i recommend Cascarino's one. Its very cheap in easons and its short and a good read...alot of the others aren't the best but are on the reading list for a degree in irish football so get swatting..

**CraftyToePoke** · 19/05/2006, 7:25 AM

Frank Stapelton had one out, possibly going back to the early 90's, it was called ''frankly speaking'' i think.

**Paulie** · 19/05/2006, 9:03 AM

Originally Posted by onenilgameover

Jack Charton cica 1994 by Tom Humphries
Whats the story? fans stories

These two any use?

**Dodge** · 19/05/2006, 11:14 AM

Cleaned up this thread. Keep it on topic folks...

**Stuttgart88** · 19/05/2006, 3:18 PM

Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Irish Football Civil War by Paul O'Callaghan (?).

A bit of a Roddy Doyle effort at capturing the mood during WC02, though very much from a pro-Roy Keane view. I couldn't finish it because I just couldn't undertstand how anyone could not care / not be up for Ireland because of what happened, which is what the author said.

**John83** · 19/05/2006, 3:51 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Irish Football Civil War by Paul O'Callaghan (?).

A bit of a Roddy Doyle effort at capturing the mood during WC02, though very much from a pro-Roy Keane view. I couldn't finish it because I just couldn't undertstand how anyone could not care / not be up for Ireland because of what happened, which is what the author said.

Just to correct you on the title and author:

Originally Posted by John83

Red Mist: Roy Keane And the Irish World Cup Blues - a Fan's Story by Conor O'Callaghan

**pineapple stu** · 19/05/2006, 4:44 PM

Originally Posted by onenilgameover

75 years a history of the FAI (out in 96 or around then)

Interesting book made almost completely, unreadable by Peter Byrne's complete inability to use a, comma properly. Very, irritating. Has a tendency to waffle a bit as well - the section on the 1994 (I think?) World Cup ticket fiasco and the FAI looks like it was just lifted straight from some report or other without any real comment.

**onenilgameover** · 20/05/2006, 8:37 PM

Originally Posted by Paulie

These two any use?

The tom humphries one is a big hard back book with mostly pictures (i wouldnt recomend it) 'whats the story' is stories from those that believe they were the original green army. I think its cliched and kinda boring. The stories are badly written and not that interesting (not that i could do better) one about davy Keogh getting black paint on a hotel carpet. Snooze fest! There was meant to be a new book coming out with fans stories (recent ones) in it? don't know what happened to it. maybe it went down the drain with our 2006 WC hopes..........

**Paulie** · 22/05/2006, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by onenilgameover

The tom humphries one is a big hard back book with mostly pictures (i wouldnt recomend it) 'whats the story' is stories from those that believe they were the original green army. I think its cliched and kinda boring. The stories are badly written and not that interesting (not that i could do better) one about davy Keogh getting black paint on a hotel carpet. Snooze fest! There was meant to be a new book coming out with fans stories (recent ones) in it? don't know what happened to it. maybe it went down the drain with our 2006 WC hopes..........

Cheers for that.

**Junior** · 22/05/2006, 5:40 PM

I enjoyed Whats The Story. Admittedly I was much younger then (jaysus I must have read that about 12 years ago) and hadn't started travelling to matches myself so maybe I'd have a different take on it now. To be fair though many of the characters in it were around pre WC90 before the boom in irish soccer.............

**el punter** · 23/05/2006, 1:41 PM

Can't overlook the classics of the early 90s!

Captain Fantastic - The Mick McCarthy Story
& OOh AAh Paul McGrath

**EastTerracer** · 01/09/2009, 12:30 AM

I've often wondered when watching RTE whether Gilesie had ever written a biography when half of the no-marks in England (Steve Claridge et al) seemed to have written a book. By chance I just noticed on amazon that Gilesie is about to release an autobiography in October.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Giles-A...1808336&sr=8-1

There are plenty of recent biographies by Irish players (Keane, McCarthy, Quinn) but going back to the 70s and 80s there were really very few books about Irish international players. I know I have the following books but does anyone remember any others?

Liam Brady by Liam Brady (about 1981) covered the Arsenal years but finished just as Chippy headed to Juventus. I've been waiting for a follow-up ever since. Maybe he'll do an update to include the World Cup in South Africa

Frankly Speaking by Frank Stapleton (1990-ish) - ridiculously titled and no literary classic but I always had a soft spot for Frank so I bought it.

The Eoin Hand Story by Eoin Hand (1986) - a good summary of the Hand year's as Irish manager. A very flimsy production but relives the agony of the '82 non-qualification very clearly. Probably worth a fortune on ebay.

Only A Game by Eamon Dunphy (1976) - classic stuff. If he could have maintained this integrity over the years he would be huge.

I have rakes of stuff from the late-80s and 90s (Ray Houghton's Liverpool Notebook!!!). Dave O'Leary had a pretty inoffensive book out in 1988 which wasn't quite as controversial as his later work.

Is anyone aware of any books about the earlier generation of Irish international players (I know there was a Charlie Hurley book out last year)?