Can you create your own sporting tradition? Charting the establishment of hurling and camogie teams in Gaelic Football-dominated North County Dublin, our book Grit and Glory: A Decade at the Club suggests that you most certainly can. The story follows the Wild Geese club as they establish their first adult hurling team made up of aged former hurlers, converted Gaelic footballers and soccer players, convince local youth to pick up a hurl, and establish the area’s first-ever camogie team. This is a narrative of survival and patient stabilisation that sheds light on the poetry of everyday amateur sport – as…

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