Sport in Society, Volume 23, 2020, Issue 8: Sport and Education in Ireland

Special Issue Introduction

Making connections: reflections on the sport-education nexus, with particular reference to sport and physical education in Ireland
Curran Conor & Dilwyn Porter, Guest Editor
Pages: 1273-1279 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769932

Articles

Marching Forwards or Backwards? Physical Education and the Army in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
Conor Heffernan
Pages: 1280-1298 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769945

‘The development of physical education in Northern Ireland, 1922-1953 and the role of Joan Burnett Knight’
Conor Curran
Pages: 1299-1319 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769946

Listening to the voices of teachers: primary physical education in Ireland
Frances Murphy & Eileen McEvoy
Pages: 1320-1336 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769953

From schoolboy teams to college dreams: player progression on the League of Ireland elite underage pathway- an early look at the first structured approach to elite adult football in the League of Ireland
Tom O’Connor
Pages: 1337-1353 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769954

Sports scholarships in Ireland: a review of the issues
Ann Bourke
Pages: 1354-1369 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769955

The origins of school football associations: Manchester as a case study
Gary James
Pages: 1370-1387 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769956

Advice to ‘footballers-in-the making’: lessons in sport and life from K.R.G. Hunt, muscular Christian, international footballer, schoolmaster, author and coach
Dilwyn Porter
Pages: 1388-1404 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769957

The social world of elite youth football in Germany – crisis, reinvention, optimization strategies, and the role of schools
Kristian Naglo
Pages: 1405-1419 | DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769958