Research Catalog

Title

Gaelic games in society : civilising processes, players, administrators and spectators / John Connolly, Paddy Dolan.

Author

Connolly, John, 1973-

Publication

• Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Dolan, Paddy

Description

xv, 213 pages : 1 color illustration; 22 cm.

Summary

"In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years. The main themes in the book include: advances in the threshold of repugnance towards violence in the playing of Gaelic games, changes in the structure of spectator violence, diminishing displays of superiority towards the competing sports of soccer and rugby, the tension between decentralising and centralising processes, the movement in the balance between amateurism and professionalism, changes in the power balance between 'elite' players and administrators, and the difficulties in developing a new hybrid sport. The authors also explain how these developments were connected to various social processes including changes in the structure of Irish society and in the social habitus of people in Ireland." --Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies on Norbert Elias

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies on Norbert Elias.

Subject

• Gaelic Athletic Association
• Gaelic games > Ireland > History
• Gaelic games > Social aspects > Ireland
• Gaelic games
• Gesellschaft
• Sport
• Ireland
• Irland

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Gaelic games in society -- Gaelic games and player violence -- Spectators, emotions and the individualisation of violence -- The sociogensis and development and the GAA : centralising and decentralising tensions -- The amateur-professional tension balance -- The amplifying of professionalism and amateurism, and the emergence of 'player power' -- Integrating Irish youth, national identification and diminishing displays of superiority -- Cultural hybridisation as an essentialising strategy : the development of a new sport-international rules football -- Conclusion : some thoughts on contemporary developments.

Call Number

JFD 21-482

ISBN

• 9783030316983
• 303031698X
• 9783030316990 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1127102016

Author

Connolly, John, 1973- author.

Title

Gaelic games in society : civilising processes, players, administrators and spectators / John Connolly, Paddy Dolan.

Publisher

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies on Norbert Elias

Palgrave studies on Norbert Elias.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.

Added Author

Dolan, Paddy, author.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030316990

Research Call Number

JFD 21-482