Gaelic Football's Top 20 (Mainstream Sport) [Paperback]

Colm Keane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 2005 | Series: Mainstream Sport

Twenty of the greatest legends in Gaelic soccer history are exclusively profiled in this star-studded companion to the RTE radio series. Among the interviewees are Kerry legend Mick O'Connell and Galway's Sean Purcell, who vividly recount the golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, while Sean O'Neill describes Down's historic breakthrough in 1960. The great Kerry teams of the 1970s and 1980s are also represented by stars including Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, John Egan, and Eoin Liston, while Dublin's Jimmy Keaveney and Brian Mullins assess their most memorable battles with the Kerry giants. Gaelic Football's Top 20 is crammed with anecdotes of the great contests and controversies that have dominated Gaelic soccer in the last half a century. Offering rare insights and behind-the-scenes analysis, it should be essential reading for all fans of Ireland's most popular sport.

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About the Author

Colm Keane is a senior producer with RTE Radio 1, where he won a Jacobs Award and a Glaxo Fellowship for European Science Writers. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and Georgetown University, Washington DC, he has published 13 books including bestsellers The Jobs Crisis, Nervous Breakdown, The Stress File, The Teenage Years and A Cut Above the Rest. His most recent publication is the popular Hurling's Top 20.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (August 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840187123
• ISBN-13: 978-1840187120
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,520,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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