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Sport in Victorian Dublin

Sport in Victorian Dublin

Taylor, Matthew
Holt, Richard
Skillen, Fiona

Paperback

Series: Sport, History and Culture, Book 16

FictionAncient GreeceGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 1803743689
ISBN13: 9781803743684
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book is the first full-length academic study of sport in nineteenth-century Dublin. Drawing extensively from historical and archival material, it maps out the emergence and development of modern sport in the city as traditional pastimes were progressively replaced by formally organized games. It examines the initial role of Dublin University students in fostering such games among the city's rapidly expanding middle classes and illustrates how commercial forces, sustained by a growing number of retailers and entrepreneurs, proved equally decisive in shaping new recreational habits. Crucially, it explores how the evolution of an urban and imperial British society as well as Irish customs and a renewal of cultural nationalism in late nineteenth-century contributed to fashioning the original and distinctive sporting scene which emerged in Victorian Dublin.

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