Contributors
- Contributors
Cathal Billings is an assistant lecturer in Modern Irish at Lárionad de Bhaldraithe do Léann na Gaeilge, University College Dublin. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Modern Irish. His research topic is “Athbheochan na Gaeilge agus an Spórt in Éirinn, 1884–1934” [The Irish Language Revival and Sport in Ireland, 1884–1934].
Joseph M. Bradley is currently senior lecturer in the School of Sport at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He has authored, coauthored, and edited numerous books documenting aspects of sport’s relationship with ethnicity, nationalism, diaspora, identity, race, religion, and politics. His work has been published in a broad range of journals across the social sciences. He was a member of a group appointed by the Economic and Social Research Council to carry out research on those who comprise the second‐ and third‐generation Irish in Britain.
Mike Cronin is the Academic Director of Boston College in Ireland. He has worked extensively on the history of Irish sport; his publications include Sport and Nationalism in Ireland (1999) with Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse; The GAA: A People’s History (2009); The GAA: County by County (2011); and with Roisín Higgins, Places We Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage (2011). [End Page 309]
Seán Crosson is the program director of the M.A. in Film Studies and the M.A. in Screenwriting in the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published widely on literature and cinema, focusing in particular in recent years on the representation of sport in film. His previous publications include (as coeditor) the collection Sport, Representation, and Evolving Identities in Europe (2010) and a special issue of Media History on “Sport and the Media in Ireland” (2011). He has also contributed to several major collections, including the award‐winning volume The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884–2009 (2009). His monograph Sport and Film (2013) was recently published.
Conor Curran completed his Ph.D. in 2012 through De Montfort University, Leicester; his dissertation is titled “Why Donegal Slept: The Development of Gaelic Games in County Donegal, 1884–1934.” In 2013 he was awarded a Joao Havelanage postdoctoral research scholarship to examine the migration of Irish footballers to Britain between 1945 and 2010. He is the vice‐chairman of the Sports History Ireland Society and works as a part‐time tutor at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin.
Marcus Free is a lecturer in media and communication studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He has published many articles and book chapters on constructions of gender and national identity in media, sport, and popular culture, and is coauthor of The Uses of Sport: A Critical Study (2005) with John Hughson and David Inglis.
Brian Griffin lectures at Bath Spa University in England. His publications include Cycling in Victorian Ireland (2006), Sources for the Study of Crime in Ireland, 1801–1921 (2005), and The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800–1865 (1997).
Roisín Higgins has taught Irish and British history at universities in Ireland, Scotland, and England. She has published extensively on nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century Irish and British history and is the author of Transforming 1916: Meaning, Memory, and the Fiftieth Anniversary [End Page 310] of the Easter Rising (2012), and the coauthor of Places We Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage (2011) with Mike Cronin.
Ed Madden is based at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888–2001 (2008) and is currently completing a monograph on marginal masculinities in Irish literature and film.
Richard McElligott is an occasional lecturer in modern Irish history at the School of History and the Archives, University College Dublin. He is the chairman of the Sports History Ireland Society, which was established in 2005 to promote academic discussion and debate on the history of Irish sport. His own research focuses on the political, social, and cultural development of the GAA in Ireland. His first book, Forging a Kingdom: The GAA in Kerry, 1884–1934, will be published in 2013.
Anne Mulhall lectures at University College Dublin and has written widely on feminism, sexuality, and literature. She...
