Apologies, this event is fully booked. Talk by Dr Ruth McManus, Associate Professor in Geography and Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, DCU. Her most recent books are the second edition of 'Dublin 1910-1940, Shaping the city and suburbs' (2021), and 'Building Healthy Homes, Dublin Corporation’s first...

The League of Ireland is commonly seen as a development league, one whose best players are signed at an early age, usually by larger, wealthier clubs from Britain, following a pattern established more than a century ago. But in this set of four case studies from the 1920s through to the twenty-first century another narrative...

This paper will examine the first attempts to promote women’s soccer in Dublin, beginning with failed efforts in the late nineteenth century and in the 1920s. It was not until the 1970s that the game took off in earnest with the organisation of league and cup competitions central to this. Despite this, gaining support remained...