Irish Sporting Lives

GAA Museum Book Club Book of the Month January/February

Irish Sporting Lives 

Edited by Terry Clavin and Turlough O'Riordan

Published by Royal Irish Academy 

Irish Sporting Lives celebrates the diversity of Irish sporting history through a selection of sixty lives from the Dictionary of Irish Biography series. It includes tales of serial winners, glorious losers, heroes and villains, trailblazing women and sporting founders, legends and overlooked greats.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a project of the Royal Irish Academy and tells Ireland’s life story through the biographies of prominent men and women born in Ireland and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland.

Author Turlough O’Riordan is a historian and the online and digital editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography. He has worked on the project for over two decades. Terry Clavin joined the project in 2006. He is also a historian who has published over 400 biographies with the project.

GAA Museum Book Club

Irish Sporting Lives was the focus of the GAA Museum Book Club for January/February. Check out an interview with Terry Clavin and Turlough O'Riordan here.