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The Irish and the making of American sport, 1835-1920
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ISBN: 147660584X 9781476605845 9780786475537 0786475536 Year: 2014 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina

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"Covers the Irish sportsman's close relations with politicians, his role in labor relations, his violent lifestyle yet participation in bringing respectability to sport. It also deals with native Irish sports in America, the part played by the Irish in "Team USA's" initial international sporting ventures, and in the making and breaking of amateurism within sport. "--


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The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York
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ISBN: 147663162X 9781476631622 9781476672397 1476672393 Year: 2018 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina

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"New York's Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. The I-AAC laid claim to the title of best athletic club in the world following the 1908 Olympic Games, bent the rules on amateurism and challenged the ban on Sunday entertainments, before succumbing to aftereffects of World War I and Prohibition"--

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