Tag: Turlough O’Riordan
Reinterpreting the academic historiography of Irish sports history
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.