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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.
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| Weight | 0.193 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
| Author(s) | |
| Format Old` | |
| 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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