Whats the best GAA book to get this vchristnmas. i want 1 for me Da.
Armagh: The Glory Year
Quote from: Armagh4SamAgain on December 21, 2008, 11:39:53 AM
Whats the best GAA book to get this vchristnmas. i want 1 for me Da.
Dessie: Tangled up in blue
Last Man Standing would be my recommendation.
Quote from: Guillem2 on December 21, 2008, 12:49:05 PM
Last Man Standing would be my recommendation.
Who's that about?
Quote from: heffo on December 21, 2008, 12:30:33 PM
Quote from: Armagh4SamAgain on December 21, 2008, 11:39:53 AM
Whats the best GAA book to get this vchristnmas. i want 1 for me Da.
Dessie: Tangled up in blue
Thought it was one of the worst meself
Some great ones out there
Last Man Standing (Christy O'Connor) profiles the trials and tribulations of hurling goalkeepers
Hurling: The Revolution Years (Denis Walsh) is a great work on the hurling scene from 1995-2000
Kings of September (Michael Foley) is a wonderful look back on the 1982 All-Ireland Football Final, very insightful
Kerry and Dublin (Tom Humphries) looks at that great rivalry
The Lifelong Season (Keith Duggan) would be the best pick for me, a series of chapters looking at different individuals throughout the GAA whose life is framed by the GAA
House of Pain (Keith Duggan) is a good tearjerker, looking at Mayo's continuous failure . . .
Is it just me or are their very few new books out this year (apart from the County Yearbooks)? A lot of those books mentioned have been hanging around for a few years.The Championship is a must for me. Season of Sundays 2008 was £28 sterling in Belfast yesterday, it will be available in Easons in O Connell Street for 5 euros next autumn, so my advice is to wait patiently.
Humphries Kerry V Dublin book is a great read, especially for those of us who remember and lived through the 70s era.
PS Buy all your sports books on Amazon, you'll save a fortune, but at this stage they'll not be here for xmas.
Isn't there one out about Cork Hurlers 96-08?
Quote from: ONeill on December 22, 2008, 03:08:53 PM
Isn't there one out about Cork Hurlers 96-08?
Strike it rich?
Of this years books only its probably the worst year for a while. a lot of the books mentioned above have been out for 2 years. Blood brothers is good but the rest are very average.
I got Michael O'Muirheartighs's biog last year but havent had the chance to read it yet. Anyone got that far?
He has another book out since that called "From Booroloola to Mangerton Mountain"....excellent book. Its really a collection of anecdotes from his travels around the world most of them with a GAA connection. There's also some cracking photos in it especially the one of himself and Dara Ó Cinnéide on top of Brandon with Sam.
On top of Brandon? Is that a male or female?
There's a Tyrone picture book out based on the 2008 season (pictures mostly which'll suit those in Urney, Brackaville, Andersonstown, Gortin and Moortown).
Fairly decent - pics all by Jim Dunne.
Quote from: ONeill on December 22, 2008, 06:58:20 PM
There's a Tyrone picture book out based on the 2008 season (pictures mostly which'll suit those in Urney, Brackaville, Andersonstown, Gortin and Moortown).
Fairly decent - pics all by Jim Dunne.
Can you get it locally O'Neill ??
Is the Season of Sundays out this year ?????
Was meant to be a put down but badly put. As in no words.
Orangeman, I have a copy but got it in Belfast. It's called 'Tyrone - The Road to Glory' by Barry Flynn.
This is it - http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-Tyrone+-9781847581372.html
and here - http://www.appletree.ie/cat/books/1372.htm
In the meantime, this is a picture of Cookstown years ago:
(http://www.myhometown.ie/cartlarge.php?pic=tyrcoo1239.jpg)
Quote from: ONeill on December 22, 2008, 08:15:12 PM
Was meant to be a put down but badly put. As in no words.
Orangeman, I have a copy but got it in Belfast. It's called 'Tyrone - The Road to Glory' by Barry Flynn.
This is it - http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-Tyrone+-9781847581372.html
and here - http://www.appletree.ie/cat/books/1372.htm
In the meantime, this is a picture of Cookstown years ago:
(http://www.myhometown.ie/cartlarge.php?pic=tyrcoo1239.jpg)
I love the Union Jack ! What shop is that ?? ;) ;)
Quote from: ONeill on December 22, 2008, 08:15:12 PM
Was meant to be a put down but badly put. As in no words.
Orangeman, I have a copy but got it in Belfast. It's called 'Tyrone - The Road to Glory' by Barry Flynn.
This is it - http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-Tyrone+-9781847581372.html
and here - http://www.appletree.ie/cat/books/1372.htm
In the meantime, this is a picture of Cookstown years ago:
(http://www.myhometown.ie/cartlarge.php?pic=tyrcoo1239.jpg)
When you click on that WH Smith link it shows other Gaelic Football Best Sellers which includes "Drogheda United the Story so Far" :)
And I think that Butcher's Arpon is WH Smith as well. Let's do it.
Quote from: orangeman on December 22, 2008, 07:21:41 PM
Quote from: ONeill on December 22, 2008, 06:58:20 PM
There's a Tyrone picture book out based on the 2008 season (pictures mostly which'll suit those in Urney, Brackaville, Andersonstown, Gortin and Moortown).
Fairly decent - pics all by Jim Dunne.
Can you get it locally O'Neill ??
Is the Season of Sundays out this year ?????
Tis, and my years of buying it have paid off as I'm in it! 8)
Got the GAA Book of Days myself.....wee small green hard back book with facts relating to every day of the year going back through the history of the GAA and what happened on each with loads of other 'facts"...a really good idea which was totally and utterly fcuked up by poor research and no proof reading whatsoever...sloppy sloppy work :-\
Got that book too. What errors did you spot?
anyone read that christy ring book thats out i looked at it briefly in easons and it seemed fairly interesting