The Club

byChristy O'Connor

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This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.

To understand Ireland, you have to understand the GAA. To understand the GAA, you have to read this book. A masterpiece.

Tom Humphries

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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141399669
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 193g
  • Price: £15.99
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