This Month's Book
The GAA Museum is delighted to announce that our final Book Club choice for 2024 is the beautiful children’s book The Great Irish Book of Gaelic Games by Evanne Ní Chuilinn.
We love to choose a book for younger readers at this time of year and this one is the perfect present. We will be reading the book throughout December and January.
The Great Irish Book of Gaelic Games is big in size and big in content and is a great introduction to the history of our sports for kids of all ages. Gorgeous illustrations by Donough O’Malley accompany the text and Evanne teaches us everything from the basic rules of the games to the stories of the greatest players ever to grace the field.
This is a book that children will dip in and out of and return to again and again. It’s full of little-known facts, funny stories and even includes a dictionary of well-known GAA phrases. We sat down with Evanne to chat about her lovely book and you can watch it back HERE.
Author Evanne is a sports presenter and journalist working with RTÉ. She has covered everything from World Cups to Olympic Games and All-Ireland finals. She’s a proud Kilkenny Cat and Gaeilgóir.
Illustrator Donogh hails from Carrickmacross in Monaghan and has illustrated over 30 books. He works with authors from all over the world.
To celebrate choosing
The Great Irish Book of Gaelic Games for our Book Club, we have a 20% discount on copies available through our online gift shop.
If you don’t have or can’t borrow a copy of
The Great Irish Book of Gaelic Games, 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 Unladylike author Haley Kilgallon!
Catch-up on this fascinating discussion below.
GAA Museum Library & Archive
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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