Tag: Conor Curran

Serial winners and glorious losers, heroes and villains, trailblazing women, role models and rogues, all are here; so too are audacious sporting founders, enduring legends and forgotten or overlooked greats. Conor Curran has read about sixty Irish Sporting Lives selected by Terry Clavin & Turlough O’Riordan (Royal Irish Acdemy), and he found it generally entertaining throughout,, but then Dr. Curran is also an historian, and as such found much historiographic references and context wanting.

This one day event, a special conference on the history of the League of Ireland, will mark the publication of The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Routledge. This has developed from a special edition of Soccer and Society published in December 2021. The conference will take place on Saturday, 14th of January 2023 from 9.30 a.m. until 4.15 p.m at Dalymount Park.

Conor Curran’s peer reviewed study Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History (Peter Lang Publishing) is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second level schools in the twentieth century. Björn Sandahl wrote a similar study about Swedish physical education, and his insightful and appreciative review of Curran’s book highlights his careful use and analysis of historical sources. An important contribution to the body of literature in this area.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘‘This heart-rending and world-shattering news’: gender, emotion, and transnationalism in the Bill Shankly retirement letters by Alan McDougall.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport by Helge Chr. Pedersen (open access).

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Who’s SARI now: social enterprise and the use of the medium of sport to further human rights in society by Ken Mc Cue.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ’Dark-skinned pioneers in European national football teams: patterns and stories by Przemysław Nosal & Natalia Organista.

Football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘MANY DETAILS REMAIN SKETCHY’: REVEALING THE ‘TRUTH’ BEHIND THE ORIGINS AND FORMATION OF STOKE CITY FOOTBALL CLUB by Martyn Dean Cooke.

Football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. Editor’s pick from the current issue: IDENTIFICATION WITH THE WOMEN’S NATIONAL SOCCER IN GERMANY: DO GENDER ROLE ORIENTATIONS MATTER? by Henk Erik Meier, Mara Konjer & Bernd Strauß.

The Journal of Sport History is published three times a year by the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH). The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes.