Introduction: sport in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s

Sport, Memory, and Nostalgia: The Lives of Irish Republicans in Internment Camps and Prisons, 1971–2000

“…10 Despite the dominant role of sports in the modern history of Ireland and the boom in research over the last two decades on political imprisonment, the relationship between these two areas, especially between recently released political prisoners and their sports activities has so far received little scholarly interest. 11 Existing studies on political imprisonment tend to ignore social and cultural life in prison, and instead focus on political developments; 12 similarly, studies on the relationship between sport and Irish nationalism and republicanism tend to ignore post-1969 republicans. 13 Notable exceptions are Brian Hanley's research on attitudes towards sport and Irish republicans, the works of Alan Bairner on sport in Northern Ireland, and David Hassan's analysis of how sport facilitated a separate northern identity within Irish nationalism.…”