Third Annual Sports History Ireland Conference

Conference Programme  

 

Friday 16 February

11:00 – 11:30: Registration

For details of registration for the conference, please contact
Samantha Williams or David Doyle, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI,
Galway. Phone: 091-492051 or email: sportshistoryireland@gmail.com

 

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 by the President of
the National University of Ireland, Galway, Dr. Iognáid
G. Ó Muircheartaigh 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.

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: Gearóid Ó 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

For details of registration for the conference, please contact
Samantha Williams or David Doyle, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI,
Galway. Phone: 091-492051 or email: sportshistoryireland@gmail.com