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The Club


Author:	O'Connor, Christy
Format:	Book
Reference code:	978-1-844-88252-6
Published:	2010
Covering Dates:	NA
People Mentioned:	NA
Extent:	230pp
Reproduction:	No Reproduction Allowed
Access:	By Appointment
Subject Matter:	Hurling
Available:	Yes

This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.

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