This Month's Book
The GAA Museum is delighted to announce that our next Book Club choice for 2024 is Unladylike by Hayley Kilgallon. We will be reading the book throughout October and November.
Unladylike is the definitive history of ladies Gaelic football and draws from national, club and personal archives. The book charts the growth of the sport from a novelty act at local carnivals to the powerhouse it is today. It also promises that the best is yet to come.
Memorable photographs sit alongside the extraordinary tale of the foundation of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA). The books examines everything from the writing of the rule book to the first All-Stars to game-changing partnerships and media coverage.
Author Hayley Kilgallon is a PhD student at the School of History in University College Dublin. Her research area is the history of women’s sport in Ireland and she has contributed on this subject for RTE, TG4 and BBC Gaeilge as well as numerous journals.
She is currently a tutor at the School of History in UCD and has been a Programme Manager at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland. Hayley has also been a judge for the Young Social Innovator Awards and played Gaelic football at club level in Sligo, Boston and Dublin.
If you don’t have or can’t borrow a copy of
Unladylike, you can purchase it at the GAA Museum online gift shop.
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You can explore our catalogue of GAA Museum Book Club choices and author interviews on our website. Here you’ll find chats with authors including Ciarán Murphy, Paul Rouse, David Hannigan, Tadhg Coakley, Siobhán Doyle, Niall McCoy, Michael Foley and Eimear Ryan. Our previous book choices might also inspire some Christmas gift ideas!
Those wishing to get involved with the GAA Museum Book Club can sign up below. The GAA Museum team regularly choose a well-known GAA book to read and review. The museum team also interview the author and release the video to all members.
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Author Interviews.
Our GAA Museum Book Club recently spoke to Chasing Sam authors Colm Keys and Dermot Reilly.
Catch-up on this fascinating discussion below.
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The Book Club aims to raise awareness and celebrate the GAA Museum Library & Archive - the national repository for the GAA’s records, archives and publications. Its mission is to collect a copy of every book published by the GAA and every book written about the GAA. The GAA Museum and its archives house almost 20,000 items in its collection. Readers, researchers and students can access the archive in Croke Park by appointment when it’s safe to do so. Until then you can search the archive below.
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