Great GAA Rivalries: Unforgettable Showdowns

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Great GAA Rivalries: Unforgettable Showdowns
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Scally
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreHurling
Gaelic football
ISBN/Barcode 9781785302923
ClassificationsDewey:796.35
Audience
General
Illustrations 8pp colour plate section

Publishing Details

Publisher Black and White Publishing
Imprint Black and White Publishing
Publication Date 3 September 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Fans always answer in the affirmative when their team asks: Will you still love me tomorrow? But everyone knows that it's the passion and energy of rivalries that fuel true fandom. These intense, dramatic rivlaries are what give the Gaelic Games their powerful draw. With exclusive interviews with a veritable Who's Who of the Gaelic Games, here are shocking insights into the controversies, epic matches and thrilling events on and off the field that such rivalries have generated. This book, written with the intimate knowledge of an insider, recalls incidents thathave never before come to public attention. Full of arresting anecdotes, it captures the unique pride of Ireland's greatest national treasures: Gaelic football, hurling, women's football and camogie.

Author Biography

John Scally lectures at Trinity College, but in his spare time is a writer and broadcaster. Since 1992 he has written 40 books with cumulative sales of over 150,000. He is the author of the biggest selling GAA book in Ireland, Raising the Banner: The Biography of Ger Loughnane, and for a few years his biography of Tony Ward was the biggest selling rugby book in Ireland.