Paper 253
Lecture – 2005
Author – Ni Mhurchadha, Maighread
The people of Fingal of all classes were greatly attached to a wide variety of sports. One contemporary source indicated that football was not played much in Ireland except in Fingal. (What form the game took we do not know.)
Using numerous sources from the 17th and 18th centuries, including literary sources, the author discusses the variety of sports played in Fingal, the attitudes of the authorities to them and the means the organisers used to circumvent the laws directed against some of the sports. (31 pages).
Themes: Recreation, politics, religion, social history
