Best GAA books - Recommendations

Started by Joeythelips, August 08, 2023, 08:42:05 AM

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ONeill

I enjoyed Declan Bogue's book - This Is Our Year
I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

restorepride

Quote from: IolarCoisCuain on August 10, 2023, 08:42:52 PM
Kings of September by Michael Foley, about the 1982 All-Ireland Final, is the best GAA book I've ever read. First-class in every way.

House of Pain by Keith Duggan, about the Mayo football team, spoke to me, but I have skin in that game, God help me.

Hurling: The Revolution Years, by Denis Walsh is excellent on the golden years of 1990s hurling.

Over the Bar, by Breandán Ó hEithir might be hard to find now but it's a classic. Published in 1984 for the centenary, it's an elegy to a lost Ireland and the GAA's role in it.

Agus spéis agat snas a chuir ar do chuid Gaeilge, bain triail as Lá an Phaoraigh, le Seán Óg de Paor. Suimiúil go leor agus, níos fearr arís, tá an Ghaeilge caighdeánach go leor, rud nach bhfuil chomh  coitianta mar a shílfeá i bhfoilsitheoireacht leabhar Gaeilge.
Great read.  Leabhar iontach.

The Wedger

Quote from: Kidder81 on August 08, 2023, 01:07:49 PM
Quote from: Heshs Umpire on August 08, 2023, 12:41:19 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on August 08, 2023, 11:06:58 AM
Can issue a strong do not recommend for DJ Carey's.
Brian Cody's too. Ghostwritten by Martin Breheny and managed to say nothing in an entire book.

Cody's was really bad

DJ could do quite a good one now if he wanted
Martin Breheny did Cody's and DJ's so that might be a clue as to why they are hugely boring.