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- Herausgeber: G2 Rights
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
Irish Rugby Player by Player is a compilation of the 50 greatest Irish rugby players in the sport's history. Re-live the glorious careers of Jack Kyle and Brian O'Driscoll, examine Eric Elwood's contribution to the game, and marvel at the genius of Simon Geoghegan and Keith Wood. Enjoy the careers of Irish stalwarts like Jeremy Davidson and Rory Best, and cast your mind back to the epic Lions tours that saw Tom Kiernan, Willie John McBride, Ollie Campbell (who writes a foreword for the book) and Mike Gibson become household names. The book also features the fans' favourites including Tadhg Furlong, Peter Clohesy and Moss Keane as well as giving a nod to the future stars such as Jacob Stockdale who are part of a new generation who will surely dominate the game for years to come. Each entry lists the key facts, statistics and achievements that have helped the players join the game's elite.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
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Contents
01 Foreword
02 Introduction
03 Best
04 Bowe
05 Campbell
06 Crawford
07 Clohessy
08 D’Arcy
09 Davidson
10 Dawson
11 Dempsey
12 Duggan
13 Earls
14 Easterby
15 Elwood
16 Foley
17 Furlong
18 Geoghegan
19 Gibson
20 Hayes
21 Healy
22 Heaslip
23 Hickie
24 Horgan
25 Humphreys
26 Keane
27 Kearney
28 Kiernan
29 Kyle
30 McBride
31 McKay
32 Millar
33 Miller
34 Mullen
35 Mulcahy
36 Murphy
37 Murray
38 O’Brien
39 O’Callaghan
40 O’Connell
41 O’Driscoll
42 O’Gara
43 O’Kelly
44 O’Mahony
45 O’Reilly
46 Sexton
47 Slattery
48 Stockdale
49 Stringer
50 Trimble
51 Wallace
52 Wood
Foreword
Ireland’s first ever rugby international was against England at Kennington Oval in London on Feb 15th 1875, when rugby was a 20 a side game. Since that auspicious day various Irish teams have produced many unforgettable memories, many exceptional players and more than its fair share of exceptional characters too.
During “The Troubles” on this island in the ‘70s the lovable and unique Moss Keane once memorably said that “there are no borders in an Irish dressing room”. It is with this inclusive sentiment in mind that I am privileged to introduce this enthralling book on behalf of every player who has ever pulled on the famous green jersey of Ireland.
One of those players was the immortal Cameron Michael Henderson [Mike] Gibson one of my childhood heroes who I idolised and was fortunate to play with. He once wrote that “rugby is like love; it is a game of touch and of feel and of instinct”. It seems to me that Liam McCann and Jules Gammond have written this book with the same love of the game as those they have written about played it.
It’s been said that books are the quietest and most constant of friends and I am sure this book will be a quiet and constant friend to anyone who reads it for years to come and it will be a welcome and worthy addition to the ever-growing anthology on Irish rugby and its players.
Ollie Campbell.Ireland & British and Irish Lions flyhalf
Ollie Campbell is pictured at his beloved Old Belvedere Rugby Club where they renamed their ground at Anglesea Road,
‘Ollie Campbell Park’ in honour of their famous former player.
Introduction
Primitive forms of rugby had been played for hundreds of years (notably in Ireland where the 1527 Statute of Galway allowed football but banned an early form of hurling called hokie), although the innovation of being allowed to run with the ball was certainly a turning point. William Webb Ellis’s father was stationed in Ireland with the Dragoons so he would have noticed locals playing the game of Caid (meaning scrotum of the bull) in either its field (the ball must pass between two marked trees) or cross-country (the ball must cross a parish boundary) forms. The Welsh believe field Caid derived from their Criapan, which the Cornish called Hurling to Goales, and dated from the Bronze Age.
Whether Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran in 1823 is unclear but the game certainly changed at Rugby School around this time. It also must have become more popular outside school because the kicking and running forms were outlawed by the Highways Act of 1835, which forbade their playing on public land by the common man. Instead, the sport found refuge in other public schools, although why the rules laid down at Rugby have survived, while those at Cheltenham, Shrewsbury and Marlborough haven’t is unclear, but it seems likely that Rugby’s influential headmaster, Dr Thomas Arnold, lobbied for their laws to be universally applied. By the mid-1860s many schools abided by the Rugby rules.
