The Hurlers

Cover Art Courtesy of Penguin Ireland Sport and culture are closely connected as both share a country’s values, background, and history.  But nowhere in the world is that more true than in Ireland, the birthplace of Gaelic sports. Paul Rouse’s The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling is the incredible story of a sporting rebirth, the rescue of hurling in the 1880s. Hurling was almost out of existence in 1882 and there was a real fear that it