Alan Bairner

From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have remained symbiotic bedfellows. Meer

Focusing on the extent to which sport plays a part in the construction of Irishness, this book also makes a contribution to more general debates about the evolution of Ireland and the Irish as well as to international discussions about the relationship between sport and identity formation. Meer