“Two beautiful footballers — it was poetry”

In the heart of the Director of Glucksman Ireland House at New York University beats a love of the GAA. Historian Joe Lee talks hurling and football

JOE LEE was born in Kerry and lived in Castlegregory for the first ten years of his life. No surprise gaelic football was his first love, then.

“The 1953 final with Armagh got me hooked, and then you had 1955, and Dublin-Kerry. It was depicted then — though I didn’t really pick up on that at the time — as a city-rural clash, but as a child I just felt that Kerry should be winning.!