Person: WG Grace

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'Sport and Ireland: A History' debunks what you thought you knew about our favourite games

Carson played hurley, but not hurling, cricket was once a national sport, and the GAA regarded chess as a gaelic game, as Michael Moynihan discovers in an account of the games people played both on and off the field.

Sat, 21 Nov, 2015

Coach Simmons lords it at the Mardyke

Those who came to the Mardyke’s Richard Beamish Grounds to celebrate 140 years of Cork County Cricket Club were duly transported back in time, albeit only by 15 years, as former West Indies star and now Ireland coach, Phil Simmons stole the show.

Thu, 21 Aug, 2014

How the return of golf chips away at the Olympic ideal

Margaret Abbott was just 22 when she travelled from Chicago to Paris in 1899 along with her mother, literary editor and novelist Mary Perkins Ives Abbott.

Fri, 20 Jul, 2012