Irish Involvement in the Olympic Games 1896-1920
Irish Involvement in the Olympic Games 1896-1920

Author: John Kevin MacCarthy

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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The involvement of the Irish in the early Olympic Games has not been accorded the historiographical attention of other Irish sporting activities of the time. Yet, early Irish Olympism has a store of potential research avenues, from local sources to international ones, which surpass what is available in almost any other facet of Irish sports history, including the records of the GAA itself. It is these sources which have been the platform of the research undertaken for this thesis over the past years and which, hopefully, provide a new insight into the Irish involvement in the Olympics prior to independence and the impact of that involvement on Irish identity and nationalism. The body of this thesis examines the impact of the various Olympic celebrations of the Olympic Games held from 1896 to 1920, with additional emphasis on the two most significant sets of Games, in St Louis (1904) and London (1908). The opening chapter sets out to place early Irish Olympic involvement, and its impact on Irish national identity, in various contexts. It is important to be aware, firstly, of the role played by national identity in the Olympic movement itself, in order to better understand how Irish involvement impacted upon the movement and vice versa. Furthermore, a glance at the way other non-independent states viewed international sport at the dawn of the modern Olympics, where Ireland{u2019}s most nationalistic sporting organisation was largely insular in focus and its international participation was sometimes unionist or certainly no more than moderately nationalist in origin.

Gold, Silver and Green
Gold, Silver and Green

Author: Kevin McCarthy

Publisher:

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781859184882

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Shortlisted for the Aberdare Literary Prize 2011 & International Society of Olympic Historians 2011 This book sheds light on the half-known story of Irish involvement in the Olympic Games prior to independence. The authors research has unearthed a huge amount of information, most of it previously unpublished. Few people will have known that hurling and Gaelic football formed part of an Olympic Games, or that Ireland competed as a separate nation in events like bicycle polo and hockey long before independence. Kevin McCarthy follows the story of Irish and Irish American Olympic involvement from its accidental beginnings in 1896 through to the very significant political issues which dominated Irish sports and Irish Olympic aspirations in the early 20th century. He has traced the role played by the Olympic Games in the evolution of a national identity in Ireland, and in the emergence of Irish America as a major sporting and political force in the USA. Politi

Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games
Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games

Author: Matthew Llewellyn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1317979753

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On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholarly attention. With the conclusion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the passing of the baton to London, Rule Britannia remedies that oversight. This book uncovers Britain’s early Olympic involvement, revealing how the British public, media, and leading governmental officials were strongly opposed to international Olympic competition. It explores how the British Olympic Association focused on three main factors in the midst of widespread national opposition: it embraced early Olympian spectacles as a platform for maintaining a sporting union with Ireland, it fostered a greater sense of imperial identity with Britain’s white dominions, and it undertook an ambitious policy of athletic specialization designed to reverse the nation’s waning fortunes in international sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport.

The British World and the Five Rings
The British World and the Five Rings

Author: Erik Nielsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1317437616

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Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the British presided over the largest Empire in world history, a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm of dominions, colonies, protectorates and mandates that covered over one-quarter of the world’s land mass and comprised a population of over 450-million subjects. Spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, over fifty modern nations—currently recognized by the International Olympic Committee—were governed and controlled by the British crown at some stage prior to the gradual dissolution of the Empire. The British World and the Five Rings seeks to explore the relationship between the former British Empire and the Olympic Movement. It pays due regard to the settler dominions, but it also addresses those territories who were less willing partners in the British imperial project. In doing so, the tendency of so-called ‘British World’ histories to promote an apologia for Empire is rejected in favour of a critical approach to imperialism. Combining thorough research with engaging and accessible writing, The British World and the Five Rings is applicable to many fields of Olympic scholarship making it a central work in the growing field of sports studies. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920
The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920

Author: Patrick R. Redmond

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-07

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 147660584X

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Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agree--and expand--that the period from the mid-1830s well into the first decade of the 20th century and assign the term to American sports in general. This book covers the Irish sportsman from the arrival of James "Deaf" Burke in 1836 through to Jack B. Kelly's rejection by Henley regatta and his subsequent gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. It avoids recounting the various victories and defeats of the Irish sportsman, seeking instead to deal with the complex interaction that he had with alcohol, gambling and Sunday leisure: pleasures that were banned in most of America at some time or other between 1836 and 1920. This book also covers the Irish sportsman's close relations with politicians, his role in labor relations, his violent lifestyle--and by contrast--his participation in bringing respectability to sport. It also deals with native Irish sports in America, the part played by the Irish in "Team USA's" initial international sporting ventures, and in the making and breaking of amateurism within sport.

Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920
Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920

Author: Luke J. Harris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1137498625

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Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the debates that were present within their national press.

Sport and Ireland
Sport and Ireland

Author: Paul Rouse

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0198745907

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The first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. It studies the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policy-making in modern states, and the ways in which sport has been colonized by the media.

Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

Author: Bill Mallon

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2011-08-11

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0810875225

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The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement presents a comprehensive history of the games from the first recorded history of the games in 776 B.C. to the present day. This is done through a chronology, forewords by Dan Jansen and Mike Krzyzewski, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, photos, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics and, of course, the medal winners. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Olympics.

The Irish Whales
The Irish Whales

Author: Kevin Martin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1538142317

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In the early 1900s, the Olympic Games track and field throwing events were dominated by a group of Irish-born weight throwers representing the United States. Of immense size and with a larger-than-life presence, these athletes came to be known as the “Irish Whales.” In The Irish Whales: Olympians of Old New York, Kevin Martin shares the untold story of these Irish American athletes who competed with unparalleled distinction for the United States. James Mitchell, John Flanagan, Martin Sheridan, Pat McDonald, Paddy Ryan, and Con Walsh won a total of eighteen medals in the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924 and completely dominated the world stage in their chosen athletic disciplines. They were lionized in the American and Irish press and became folk heroes among Irish-American immigrant communities. Almost all of these men were further distinguished by their membership in the fabled Irish American Athletic Club of New York and careers with the New York Police Department. The story of the Irish Whales is the very embodiment of the American Dream and exemplifies the triumph of many Irish emigrants in the New World. Featuring a wonderful collection of original photographs, The Irish Whales tells the dramatic stories of these international athletes and their extraordinary sporting successes.