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The Club
Christy O´connor
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Description for The Club
Paperback. A chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co Clare. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WSBT; WSJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly ... Read more
This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141399669
SKU
V9780141399669
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About Christy O´connor
Christy O'Connor has covered GAA as a journalist nationally for thirteen years. For twenty years he has kept goal for the St Joseph's Doora-Barefield senior hurling side, and he is also vice-chairman of the club. He is the author of the acclaimed Last Man Standing: Hurling Goalkeepers, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Boylesports Irish Sports Book of the Year ... Read more
Reviews for The Club
To understand Ireland, you have to understand the GAA. To understand the GAA, you have to read this book. A masterpiece.
Tom Humphries An extraordinary saga - unflinching in its honesty. This book is to hurling what Eamon Dunphy's seminal Only a Game? was to soccer writing
Richard Fitzpatrick
Irish Examiner
This is one ... Read more
Tom Humphries An extraordinary saga - unflinching in its honesty. This book is to hurling what Eamon Dunphy's seminal Only a Game? was to soccer writing
Richard Fitzpatrick
Irish Examiner
This is one ... Read more