Where miracles happen : the story of Thomond Park / Charles Mulqueen & Brendan O\'Dowd.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cork : The Collins Press, 2015Description: viii, 272 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781848892552 (hbk.) :
- 796.333 MAL
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 796.333 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100519041 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A history of Ireland's Thomond Park, one of the world's most iconic rugby venues, traced in a colorful and entertaining style.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. vi)
- Points Values explained (p. vi)
- Foreword (p. vii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Beginnings: 1920s to 1940s (p. 6)
- 2 Clifford and Reid (p. 18)
- 3 Overseas Visitors and Famous Names: 1950s (p. 27)
- 4 Into the 1960s (p. 41)
- 5 'There is an Isle' (p. 55)
- 6 'Munster Midgets' (p. 64)
- 7 History at Thomond (p. 69)
- 8 October 1978 (p. 80)
- 9 42-Year Gap Bridged (p. 102)
- 10 1980s (p. 111)
- 11 1990s (p. 120)
- Half-time at Thomond Park (p. 130)
- 12 The Game Goes Open (p. 132)
- 13 Pizza for Life (p. 143)
- 14 A New Millennium (p. 151)
- 15 Chasing the Holy Grail (p. 165)
- 16 'Just a Field' (p. 174)
- 17 The 'New' Thomond Park (p. 181)
- 18 The Celtic League (p. 198)
- 19 ROG Gets the Drop on the Saints (p. 209)
- 20 Schools Rugby (p. 224)
- 21 Junior Rugby (p. 240)
- 22 Supporters, Soccer, Springsteen & the Baa-Baas (p. 251)
- Epilogue (p. 264)
- Selected Bibliography (p. 267)
- Index (p. 268)