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Extraordinary GAA People

John Scally author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd

Published:12th Sep '24

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A true celebration of the people that make GAA the sensational sport that it is today.

As we mark the 140th anniversary of the founding of the GAA, this book is a celebration of the greatest treasure in its long and illustrious history: its people. In a fast-changing world, the GAA has given us a fixed point in our lives and Gaelic games have given us so many truly extraordinary people.

Each of their unique stories in some way offers a revealing snapshot of the GAA, as we salute the great and the good of Gaelic football, ladies' football, camogie and hurling - along with some less obvious and surprising choices - featuring John B. Keane, Rena Buckley, Brian Cody, Eamonn Cregan, Brian D'Arcy, Mickey Harte, the 2 Johnnies, Shane Lowry, Paul Mescal, John O'Donohue, Martin O'Neill, Hannah Tyrell and many more.

And with fascinating revelations like Séamus Mallon's personal memory of the Good Friday Agreement, the superstar who kneeled before Jimmy Magee, John O'Mahony's late evening and Ger Loughnane's big regret, this is the perfect way to celebrate the extraordinary people of the GAA.

'At its core the heart of the GAA is great people. They deserve to be celebrated in this book' * MARTY MORRISSEY *
'A book that captures the magic of the GAA through the stories of its people' * RICHIE HOGAN *
'A celebration of some of the many heroic people in the GAA' * ROSS CARR *

ISBN: 9781785306327

Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 22mm

Weight: 370g

400 pages