Paul Rouse: The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling [2019] paperback ZDUBL One of the most widely-read

One of the most widely-read and enjoyed of all Victorian novels

and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city

There are devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton

they soon discover that the society into which they were born and grew up also possesses two faces - for behind the sophistication and the beauty lies an ugly truth - this is a world built on oppression and treachery

far away from her unconventional upbringing

Paul Rouse: The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling [2019] paperback ZDUBL One of the most widely-readIn 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an all Ireland hurling championship would be underway, under the auspices of a powerful national organization. The Hurlers is a superbly readable account of that dramatic turn of events, of the colourful