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HISTORY

F.B. Dineen: The Irish Athletic Record. (1906).

Thomas F. O’Sullivan: The Story of the Gaelic Athletic Association. (1916).

T.H. Nally: The Aonac Tailteann and the TailTeann Games: their origin, history and ancient associations. (1922).

P.J. Devlin; ‘Carbery’: A History of Irish Athletics. (1924).

James P. Kelly: History of Limerick GAA from Earliest Times to the Present Day. Part 1: 1884-1908. (1937).

‘Carbery’ (P.D. Mehigan): Fifty Years of Irish Athletics. (1943).

‘Carbery’: Seventy Years of Irish Athletics. (1945).

William Dooley: Champions of the Athletics Arena. (1946).

Charles F. Rothwell: Clonliffe Harriers Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1886-1946. (1946).

Ristcord O’Maclain: Athletics in Laois. (1956).

Clonliffe Harriers: The Clonliffe Harriers: 75 years of athletic history. (1961).

Peter R. Pozzoli: Irish Women’s Athletics. (1977).

Alan Gilsenan (ed.): Dublin University Harriers & Athletic Club: a centenary history 1885-1985. (1985).

Seamus O’Ceallaigh; Sean Murphy: One Hundred Years of Glory: a history of Limerick GAA 1884-1984. (1987).

BLE (Wexford): Wexford Athletics. (1989).

Padraig Griffin: Politics of Irish Athletics. (1990).

Neal Fowler; et al (eds.): The Hollymount Road Race: the first 25 years. (1990).

John Devine; Michael Lillis: A History of Kilmihil Athletic Club 1942-1992. (1992).

Crusader Athletic Club: Crusader Athletic Club: 50th anniversary history. (1992).

Colm Murphy: Looking Back: 25 years of BLE in Cork. (1993).

Tom Kelly: Blackrock Athletic Club: the first 50 years. (c.1994).

Jerry Healy: Proceed to Banteer. (1997).

Noel Henry: From Sophie to Sonia: a history of women’s athletics. (1998).

Paddy Doyle: Moyne Athletic Club (Co. Tipperary): 50 years of athletics 1948-1998. (1998).

Sean Cahill; Jim Finn (eds.): Lough Ree AC Silver Jubilee 1998. (1998).

John W. Brant: Irish Women’s Athletics 1891-1946. (1999).

Colm & C. Murphy: The College Sports (The University Sports, Cork) 1869/1914. (2001).

Colm Murphy: Ta-Rax-Rum: a history of university athletics in Cork. (2002).

Colm Murphy: The Irish Championships: 1873/1884 the ICAC and the DAC Championships. (2003).

Joe Coyle: Athletics in Drogheda 1861-2001. (Canada, 2003).

Tony O’Donoghue: Irish Championship Athletics 1873-1914. (2005).

Raheny Shamrock AC: Raheny Shamrock AC 1958-2008: one life, one club. (2009).

BIOGRAPHICAL

Patrick Davin: Recollections of a Veteran Irish Athlete: the memoirs of Pat Davin, world’s all-round athletic champion. (1938).

John Joe Barry: The Ballincurry Hare. (1986).

Robert Hanna: The Armoy Athletes: a tribute to Steve and Charlie McCooke. (1990).

David Guiney: Happy Hours. (1994).

Kiltimagh Historical Society: Sean Thomas Lavan 1898-1973: teacher, surgeon, footballer, Olympic athlete. (1996).

Patrick Holland (ed.): Tom Kiely ‘for Tipperary and Ireland’ (1997).

Anne Mulroy; et all (eds.): The Martin Sheridan Story. (1998).

Kieran Sheedy: Peerless Tom Malone. (2000).

Ray Messitt: From Baghall to Bethlehem and Beyond: the Bertie Messitt story. (2000).

Mark Byrne: I Kicked the Devil in the Shins. (2000).

Patrick Bolger; Tom Humphries: Sonia O’Sullivan: running to stand still. (2000).

Harry Greensmyth (ed.): John Flanagan: his life and times. (2001).

Mark Quinn: The King of Spring: the life and times of Peter O’Connor. (2004).

Catherina McKiernan; Ian O’Riordan: Running for My Life. (2005).

Ronnie Delany: Staying the Distance. (2006).

Jim Hogan: The Irishman Who Ran for England. (2008).

Tom Aherne: Ahearne Brothers Athea: Olympic and world champions. (2008).

Sonia O’Sullivan; Tom Humphries: Sonia: my story. (2008).

David Guiney: Ireland’s Olympic Heroes. (1965).

Leo Bowes: The Sporting Irish. (1970).

Noel Henry: Irish Marathon Legends. (1992).

Lindie Naughton; Johnny Watterson: Irish Olympians. (1992).

Yvonne Judge: Chasing Gold: sportswomen of Ireland. (1995).

STATISTICS

Liam Hennessy has regularly produced Annual Ranking Lists, All-Time Lists and Irish Record Lists from the 1980s.

John Glover has produced Annual Statistics Booklets for Northern Ireland from the 1980s.

OTHER BOOKS

J.T.H. (James T. Hurford): John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland, and Record of Athletic Sports, Football etc. (16 annuals – 1866-81).

Noel Carroll: The Runner’s Book. (c. 1981).

David Guiney: World Athletic Championships. (1993).

Bernard Donne; Jim Kilty: Computerised Unit for Assessment of Sprinters on the Track. (1993).

Frank Greally: Running Commentary. (2008).

PERIODICALS

Sport (Dublin, 1880-1950)

Irish Athletic & Cycling Record (Belfast, 1897-1900)

Irish Athletic News (Belfast, 1909-1911)

Marathon (Leitrim, 1962-199?)

Irish Runner (Dublin, 1981-present)

This list was generated by my very good e-friend, Roy Profitt. If you have two spare copies of any old publication above, one will go to me and the other to Roy :-).

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14 years 9 months ago

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Jane C

14 years 9 months ago

The King of Spring:The life and times of Peter O'Connor http://www.theliffeypress.com/proddetail.php?prod=52-2
Olympic Gold Medalist. His world record long jump in 1901 stood for 20 years, and his Irish record remained intact for nearly 90 years....and he was a cousin of my Grandfather!...had to add that ;)

NotANerd

14 years 9 months ago

Jane, I recently read your grandfather's cousins biography - what a legend! He first long jumped at sports in Galway too. Also ...
Eoghan Corry: An Illustrated History of the GAA (2006).
Tim Carey: Croke Park A History (2007).
Lindie Naughton & Johnny Watterson: Faster, Higher, Stronger (2008).
Eamonn Coghlan: Chairman of the Boards (2008).
Frank Zarnowski: All-around men: heroes of a forgotton sport (2005).
Peter Walsh et al.: Galway B.L.E. Athletics Year Book (1978).
Pierce O'Callaghan's statistics on AthleticsIreland website.
Brian Foley & IUAA's statistics on Irish University Athletics Association website.