The Cork connection: How one of Ireland's biggest GAA clubs grew from the £4k sale of a pitch and putt course

The author of the work is Gerry O’Sullivan from Kilbehenny, Co. Limerick and his brother Eamonn has sourced over 500 photos for the publication

Former Kilkenny hurler Jackie Tyrrell gives instructions to Ballyboden St. Endas players during a drill at a 2014 coaching session. Picture: Barry Cregg 

In a poem dedicated to his daughter Betty, Thomas Kettle, Irish Home Rule parliamentarian and World War 1 casualty penned the words “But for a dream, born in a herdsman’s shed”.

The same words fit well with the frugal early days of the largest GAA club in the country - Ballyboden St. Endas - whose history from 1969 to 2019, has just been published.