The Club

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Description

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 told.

Additional information

Weight 0.193 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

256

Publisher

Year Published

2011-6-2

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

014139966X

About The Author

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 Award.

To understand Ireland, you have to understand the GAA. To understand the GAA, you have to read this book. A masterpiece.

Other text

An extraordinary saga – unflinching in its honesty. This book is to hurling what Eamon Dunphy's seminal Only a Game? was to soccer writing

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