Foreword by Mary McAleese Introduction Double Page Spread: ''Markings'' by John Crowley SECTION 1 Sport in pre-Modern Ireland Chapter 1: Sport in pre-Modern Ireland James Kelly Double Page Spread: Cockfighting Mike Cronin Chapter 2: Horse Racing James Kelly Case Study: Sport on the Curragh John Feehan Chapter 3: Irish Pugilism Adam Chill Chapter 4: Hurling and Football Eoin Kinsella Box: Hurling, Football and the Law Eoin Kinsella Case Study: Hair of the Bog: Early Hurling Balls Clodagh Doyle Chapter 5: ''Hurl out the Tithes'': Kilkenny Hurling and the Anti-Tithe Movement 1829-1833 Ray O''Connor Chapter 6: Road Bowling Fintan Lane Chapter 7: Cricket in Ireland,1792-1878 Sean Reid Box: Ashbrook Union Cricket Club Sean Reid Double Page Spread: Cricket on the Clonbrock Estate, Co Galway Steve Dolan Case Study: Sport in Dublin in the early nineteenth century Julien Clénet Box: Gentlemen debtors and playing ball: The Four Courts Marshalsea Brian Crowley Case Study: Fairs and Markets Paul Rouse Double Page Spread: Donnybrook Fair John Crowley Chapter 8: Sport and the Famine Brian Griffin Chapter 9: Rules and Associations Mike Cronin Double Page Spread: Yachting and early club formation John Crowley SECTION 2 Transformation, Codification and Modernisation 1850-1918 Double Page Spread: Introduction Chapter 10: Ireland 1850-1918 Diarmaid Ferriter Chapter 11: Urbanisation and Transportation John Gibney and Sarah Gearty Double Page Spread: The Laytown Races John Crowley Double Page Spread: The Gordon Bennett Cup: ''A magnificent advertisement for Ireland'' John Crowley Case Study: Sport and the Press Paul Rouse Box: Sport Paul Rouse Double Page Spread: Cork Free Press Columnist Tadhg Barry: ''An Ciotóg'' Donal Ó Drisceoil Chapter 12: Hospitable and Friendly: Garrison Towns and Military Sport Aoife Bhreatnach Chapter 13: Sport and Education Conor Curran and John Walsh Double Page Spread: Seán Heuston: Sports and Pastimes - ''Taught to play the game of life'' John Crowley Double Page Spread: Curative Physical Culture: Francis Sheehy Skeffington and the Prussian ''strongman'' Eugen Sandow John Crowley Case Study: Gravel Football Declan O''Keeffe Chapter 14: Women and Sport Maeve O''Riordan Double Page Spread: Croquet''s Early Development John Crowley Case Study: ''Irish Games for Irish Girls'' - The early years of camogie Regina Fitzpatrick Double Page Spread: Mollie Gill and the Early Development of Camogie John Crowley Chapter 15: The GAA: 1884 -1918 Richard McElligott Case Study: The GAA and the Irish Country House Ciarán Reilly Box: The GAA invasion of the United States 1888 Mike Cronin and John Crowley Double Page Spread: Dan Fraher, Dungarvan and the GAA John Crowley Box: Golden Vale of Hurling 1850-1918 Liam O''Callaghan Case Study: The First All-Ireland Championships Paul Rouse Double Page Spread: Excelling in both ''Science and Dash'' - Clare''s first All-Ireland hurling title in 1914 John Crowley Case Study: Amateurism in Irish Sport Dilwyn Porter Box: The development of Gaelic football as part of the wider global emergence of football codes Tony Collins Chapter 16: Irish Soccer 1850-1918 Martin Moore Double Page Spread: William McCrum: The Inventor of the Penalty Kick John Crowley Case Study: Before the GAA got there, women played football at Jones''s Road Kevin McCarthy Chapter 17: Rugby 1850-1918 Liam O''Callaghan Case Study: ''The Spiritual Home of Rugby'': The development, spread and popularity of rugby in Limerick Faye Kinirons Chapter 18: Irish Athletics 1850-1918 Tom Hunt Double Page Spread: ''Revived under regular rules'': Maurice Davin, athletics and the founding of the GAA John Crowley Double Page Spread: Daniel O''Leary - ''the most graceful pedestrian that ever appeared on the track'' John Crowley Chapter 19: Ireland and the Olympic Games 1896-1920 Kevin McCarthy Double Page Spread: ''The frequent purloinment of Irish athletic success'': Casement and the question of Ireland''s participation at the 1908 London Olympics John Crowley Case Study: The Irish Whales Kevin McCarthy Box: More Irish than the Irish - The Irish American Athletic Club (IAAC) of New York Kevin McCarthy Double Page Spread: Irish American Athletic Club (IAAC) and Olympic success John Crowley Double Page Spread: Culture and Politics: Tom Clarke''s membership of the IAAC John Crowley Chapter 20: Cycling 1850-1918 Brian Griffin Case Study: Women and Cycling Brian Griffin Case Study: Bicycle Polo in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland Brian Griffin Chapter 21: Gymnastics in Ireland Conor Heffernan Chapter 22: Racquet sports in Ireland Tom Higgins Chapter 23: The Irish in Baseball Myles Dungan Chapter 24: The Fighting Diaspora: Three Heavyweight Champions in the Golden Age of Irish-American Prize Fighting, 1880-1930 John Borgonovo Chapter 25: Cricket in Ireland 1870-1918 Patrick Bracken Box: Mapping cricket in Ireland Patrick Bracken Case Study: Cricket in County Kilkenny Michael O''Dwyer Chapter 26: The Early Years of Irish golf Dan Mulhall Chapter 27: The Hunt of Ireland, 1850-1919 William Murphy Case Study: Irish Mountaineering Declan O''Keeffe Chapter 28: The Great War and Ireland Niamh Gallagher Box: Irish Soldiers, the Dublin Pals and Sport Lar Joye Double Page Spread: Commemorating the plight of rugby playing friends John Crowley Chapter 29: Ireland''s Call: Sport, Ireland and the First World War Stephen Walker Case Study: impact of the Spanish Flu Ida Milne Box: Harlod Sloan: A forgotten soldier Ciaran Priestley Box: The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland - Elvery''s Cricket Bat, O''Connell Street, 1916 Brenda Malone Double Page Spread: Elvery''s Elephant House Mike Cronin SECTION 3 Culture, Politics, Identities and Place Chapter 30: Sport and Irish Society 1918-2000 Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh Double Page Spread: ''The Ghost Train to Croke Park'' John Crowley Double Page Spread: Forging the Nation: The Equitation School and Nations Cup success John Crowley and Mike Cronin Chapter 31: The Irish Revolution and Sport, 1912-1923 William Murphy Double Page Spread: Pulsating ''with the intensity of national feeling'' - Olympic cyclist Michael Walker and the 1916 Rising John Crowley Double Page Spread: Collegians 1917: ''The Triumph of Play'' John Crowley Box: ''Last ball gone over'': Rounders and Civil War Women Prisoners Brian Crowley Case Study: Oscar Traynor - Tradesman, Footballer, Soldier, Politician and Football Administrator Niall Quinn Case Study: Gaelic Sunday Aogán Ó Fearghail Box: Tom Kenny and Galway GAA Bernard Kelly Case Study: Bloody Sunday M.