Irish America Magazine. Winter 2025
Irish sport is seldom just about the field of play. It’s often tangled up with history, migration, religion, class, politics, pride, heartbreak (inevitably) and occasionally unfettered joy . . . Murphy mines political and literary sources to show how, over centuries, an Irishman striking a ball could, in the wrong company, be seen as subversion. Newspapers bristle with official suspicion, and the author threads these social and political echoes through the narrative with care.