On 13 November 1938, just months after his inauguration, President Douglas Hyde attended a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. In a passionate reaction, th

A history of analysis of one of the most controversial events in Irish sporting history- the removal of president Douglas Hyde from the GAA.

It had been a busy few days for Adolf Hitler, but Douglas Hyde had not slipped his mind ... On 25 June 1938, Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland.

Originally published in 1960 and edited by Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Shaping of Modern Ireland was a seminal work surveying the lives of prominent early twent

The first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of spor