Ireland Soccer World Champions 1914
THE 9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
SPORTS HISTORY IRELAND
Foyer, ConFerenCe registration (9.00-9.30)
room mD007 session 1a (9.30-11:00):
sport anD Ulster; iDentity anD issUes
room mD008 session 1b (9.30-11:00):
loCal anD international sports History
CHair: DaviD Hassan
CHair CormaC moore
Tom Hunt (Sports Historian)
‘Deining Ireland 1934-56’
David Toms (UCC)
‘Waterford Your Hour has Arrived: Soccer’s Development in
Waterford, 1924-1937’
Trevor Parkhill (Independent Scholar)
‘Pitching our Past to the Present: The Case for an Ulster Sports
Museum’
Seamus Morris (De Montfort University)
‘Rory McIlroy – Rio 2016, His Toughest Shot Yet’
Paul Gunning (Independent Scholar)
‘Pot Hunters, Poor Puss and Laws of the Leash - Hare Coursing in
late Victorian mid-Connacht’
Sarah Duncan (Queen Mary University, London)
‘Sweet Wine and Roses.
Preparing a Racehorse for the Palio in Renaissance Italy’
tea break (11.00-11.15)
room mD007 session 2a
(11:15-12:45):
sport, religion anD politiCs in
irelanD
room mD008 session 2b
(11:15-12:45):
sport anD tHe irisH Diaspora
room mD013 session 2C
(11:15-12:45):
regional Folk games in irelanD
CHair tom HUnt
CHair Conor CUrran
CHair Daryl leewortHy
Eoghan Corry (Independent Scholar)
Tom Feeney (UCD)
‘Chasing Steeples: A Religious History of Irish ‘The Diaspora at Play? Celtic Football Club in
Sport’
its Golden Age’
Ida Milne (Independent Scholar)
‘The Quiet Corner Back: How Rural
Protestants Contributed to the GAA within
the 26 counties’
Mark Reynolds (Mater Dei Institute)
‘The G.A.A. and the 1980 Hunger Strike’
Frances Harkin (Queen’s University)
‘The Exiles: The Gaelic Athletic Association
in London’
Keith Beattie (Ballymoney Museum)
‘Reviving ‘Marathon Mac’’
Declan O’Keefe (Clongowes Wood College)
‘‘‘All the Other Boots and Legs Ran After’’,
The Long Life and Slow Death of ‘‘Gravel’’
Football’
Clodagh Doyle & Paul Mullarkey (National
Museum of Ireland)
‘Hair of the Bog- An Examination of the
Collection of Early Hair Hurling Balls in the
National Museum of Ireland’
room mD049 lUnCH (12:45-1:45)
room mD007 session 3 (1:45-2:45):
keynote speaker Dónal mCanallen (inDepenDent sCHolar),
‘sport, History anD Commemoration in tHe DeCaDe oF Centenaries’
CHair riCHarD mCelligott
room mD049 FiFteen minUte break
room mD007 session 4a (3:00-4:30):
assoCiation Football in irelanD
room mD008 session 4b
(3:00-4:30):
irisH sportsmen at war
room mD013 session 4C
(3:00-4:30):
sports planning
CHair DaviD toms
CHair william mUrpHy
CHair mark tynan
Cormac Moore (UCD)
‘Ireland – Soccer World Champions 1914’
Ciaran Priestly (NUI Maynooth)
‘Harold Sloan: A Forgotten Soldier’
Mark Tynan (NUI Maynooth)
‘A Game Which Destroys the Tedium of
Work for Working men’: The Character of the
Association Football Community in the Irish
Free State’
Mike McGuinness (University of Teeside)
‘Viva Espagne. Three Irish Sportsmen at the
Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)’
Adrian Devine & Clare Carruthers (University
of Ulster)
‘Back to the Future – Analysing History to
Plan for Tomorrow’
Conor Curran (St Patrick’s College)
‘Irish Born Players in Britain’s Football
Leagues, 1945-2010: A Geographical
Assessment’
Liam O’Callaghan (Liverpool Hope
University)
‘Irish Rugby and the First World War’
Les Street (Independent Scholar)
‘VFL Ground Rationalisation in Melbourne
from an Urban Planning Perspective’
room mD049, tea break: 4:30-4:45
room mD007 session 5a (4:45-5:45):
tHe gaa problems anD personalities
room mD008 session 5b (4:45-5:45):
tHe History oF laCrosse in irelanD
CHair iDa milne
CHair DeClan o’keeFe
Richard McElligott (UCD)
‘Quenching the Prairie Fire, The National Collapse of the GAA in
1890s Ireland.’
Michael Kennedy (UCD)
‘The Origins of Lacrosse in Ireland’
David Hassan (University of Ulster)
‘Dick Fitzgerald – Sporting and Political Revolutionary’
Daryl Leeworthy (University of Huddersield)
‘The Other Game of War: Empire, Identity, and Ireland’s Pursuit of
Lacrosse in the Nineteenth Century’
Foyer, Closing remarks (5:45-6:00)
SPORTS HISTORY IRELAND
Foyer, ConFerenCe registration (9.00-9.30)
room mD007 session 1a (9.30-11:00):
sport anD Ulster; iDentity anD issUes
room mD008 session 1b (9.30-11:00):
loCal anD international sports History
CHair: DaviD Hassan
CHair CormaC moore
Tom Hunt (Sports Historian)
‘Deining Ireland 1934-56’
David Toms (UCC)
‘Waterford Your Hour has Arrived: Soccer’s Development in
Waterford, 1924-1937’
Trevor Parkhill (Independent Scholar)
‘Pitching our Past to the Present: The Case for an Ulster Sports
Museum’
Seamus Morris (De Montfort University)
‘Rory McIlroy – Rio 2016, His Toughest Shot Yet’
Paul Gunning (Independent Scholar)
‘Pot Hunters, Poor Puss and Laws of the Leash - Hare Coursing in
late Victorian mid-Connacht’
Sarah Duncan (Queen Mary University, London)
‘Sweet Wine and Roses.
Preparing a Racehorse for the Palio in Renaissance Italy’
tea break (11.00-11.15)
room mD007 session 2a
(11:15-12:45):
sport, religion anD politiCs in
irelanD
room mD008 session 2b
(11:15-12:45):
sport anD tHe irisH Diaspora
room mD013 session 2C
(11:15-12:45):
regional Folk games in irelanD
CHair tom HUnt
CHair Conor CUrran
CHair Daryl leewortHy
Eoghan Corry (Independent Scholar)
Tom Feeney (UCD)
‘Chasing Steeples: A Religious History of Irish ‘The Diaspora at Play? Celtic Football Club in
Sport’
its Golden Age’
Ida Milne (Independent Scholar)
‘The Quiet Corner Back: How Rural
Protestants Contributed to the GAA within
the 26 counties’
Mark Reynolds (Mater Dei Institute)
‘The G.A.A. and the 1980 Hunger Strike’
Frances Harkin (Queen’s University)
‘The Exiles: The Gaelic Athletic Association
in London’
Keith Beattie (Ballymoney Museum)
‘Reviving ‘Marathon Mac’’
Declan O’Keefe (Clongowes Wood College)
‘‘‘All the Other Boots and Legs Ran After’’,
The Long Life and Slow Death of ‘‘Gravel’’
Football’
Clodagh Doyle & Paul Mullarkey (National
Museum of Ireland)
‘Hair of the Bog- An Examination of the
Collection of Early Hair Hurling Balls in the
National Museum of Ireland’
room mD049 lUnCH (12:45-1:45)
room mD007 session 3 (1:45-2:45):
keynote speaker Dónal mCanallen (inDepenDent sCHolar),
‘sport, History anD Commemoration in tHe DeCaDe oF Centenaries’
CHair riCHarD mCelligott
room mD049 FiFteen minUte break
room mD007 session 4a (3:00-4:30):
assoCiation Football in irelanD
room mD008 session 4b
(3:00-4:30):
irisH sportsmen at war
room mD013 session 4C
(3:00-4:30):
sports planning
CHair DaviD toms
CHair william mUrpHy
CHair mark tynan
Cormac Moore (UCD)
‘Ireland – Soccer World Champions 1914’
Ciaran Priestly (NUI Maynooth)
‘Harold Sloan: A Forgotten Soldier’
Mark Tynan (NUI Maynooth)
‘A Game Which Destroys the Tedium of
Work for Working men’: The Character of the
Association Football Community in the Irish
Free State’
Mike McGuinness (University of Teeside)
‘Viva Espagne. Three Irish Sportsmen at the
Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)’
Adrian Devine & Clare Carruthers (University
of Ulster)
‘Back to the Future – Analysing History to
Plan for Tomorrow’
Conor Curran (St Patrick’s College)
‘Irish Born Players in Britain’s Football
Leagues, 1945-2010: A Geographical
Assessment’
Liam O’Callaghan (Liverpool Hope
University)
‘Irish Rugby and the First World War’
Les Street (Independent Scholar)
‘VFL Ground Rationalisation in Melbourne
from an Urban Planning Perspective’
room mD049, tea break: 4:30-4:45
room mD007 session 5a (4:45-5:45):
tHe gaa problems anD personalities
room mD008 session 5b (4:45-5:45):
tHe History oF laCrosse in irelanD
CHair iDa milne
CHair DeClan o’keeFe
Richard McElligott (UCD)
‘Quenching the Prairie Fire, The National Collapse of the GAA in
1890s Ireland.’
Michael Kennedy (UCD)
‘The Origins of Lacrosse in Ireland’
David Hassan (University of Ulster)
‘Dick Fitzgerald – Sporting and Political Revolutionary’
Daryl Leeworthy (University of Huddersield)
‘The Other Game of War: Empire, Identity, and Ireland’s Pursuit of
Lacrosse in the Nineteenth Century’
Foyer, Closing remarks (5:45-6:00)