News & Events
Publications
Mike Cronin and Roisín Higgins have written a book based on the Irish Sporting Heritage Project. Places we Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage has just been published by Collins Press.
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Links
Ballymoney Museum has a road racing display. It holds leathers, helmets, and memorabilia from the Dunlop brothers and other successful local riders on permanent display along side an interpretative exhibition, with film, on the history of road racing in Ireland (north & south). It’s on display 12 months a year. You can take a virtual [...]
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Conference: Places to Play: Irish Sporting Heritage
As 2010 opened, a debate about the place of sport in our landscape, featured heavily in the media. The decision by the local council to take land off Greystones Rugby Club, so that it could be sold for development, is symptomatic of a wider debate about the place of sporting spaces within our lives. Should [...]
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Irish Sporting Heritage in the News
BBC Northern Ireland Online:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8376016.stm
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Public Talks
‘Reading Ireland’s Sporting Landscape’.
Sixth Annual Conference of Sports History Ireland, 25 September 2010, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin.
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