Rouse, PaulPaulRouse2019-04-292019-04-292008-07-31http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10191Until the last decade, scholarly work on the history of sport and leisure in Ireland was most noted by its absence. Historians of modern Ireland almost entirely ignored the importance of sport as a historical phenomenon, preferring to concentrate on matters of church and state. The result of this was the publication of highly-regarded volumes which focused on the development of modern Irish society, but almost entirely ignored sport.enHistory of sport and leisureIrelandEvolution of Irish sportWestmeathGAAReview10.14296/RiH/issn.1749.81552019-02-02https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/