Review
This study is rigorous but manages to be entirely readable...
- Gaelic Games, Nationalism and the Irish Diaspora in the United States
- UCD Press
GAA in the USA
A friend of mine about to travel to Hanoi to teach English was asked in the interview if he would play Gaelic football.
His lack of suprise surprised me but it does seem to be ture that the ‘clash of the ash’ and the ‘fifty-yard-punt’ are finally truly international. This study is rigorous as any advisor of studies could wish but manages to be entirely readable. It concentrates on the obvious ‘Irish’ centres, Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Darby tells the story of that journey in sufficient detail to satisfy equally historian or besotted fans.
Verbal Arts Centre