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Foreign and Fantastic Field Sports: Cricket in County Tipperary
Cricket in County Tipperary

By Patrick Bracken.
Liskeveen Books, 2004, ISBN 095465334X

Price: £12.00

In his account of 'foreign and fantastic field sports', and specifically cricket in County Tipperary, Patrick Bracken has gathered together information from sports reports which appeared in the local Tipperary press of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He chronicles the development, growth and decline of cricket in Tipperary. Coexistent with this was the development of other sports and recreations, and an overview of some of these is also included. The foundation of the GAA and the associationsÕ ban on foreign sports features highly.
Sport did not take place in isolation and an outline of social life in Tipperary is also used to illustrate the political and social conditions of the times.

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