The National Athletic Association of Ireland and Irish Athletics, 1922–1937 : steps on the road to athletic isolation

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Die National Athletic Association of Ireland und Irish Athletics, 1922-1937 : Schritte auf dem Weg zur sportlichen Isolation
Autor:Hunt, Tom
Erschienen in:Sport in society
Veröffentlicht:19 (2016), 1 (Sport in Ireland - Social and Historical Perspectives), S. 130-146, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:1743-0437, 1743-0445, 1461-0981
DOI:10.1080/17430437.2015.1038918
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Erfassungsnummer:PU201810007612
Quelle:BISp

Abstract des Autors

The interplay between politics and Irish sport is seldom far from the surface and has often been detrimental to its development. Athletics exhibit this characteristic more than any other sport. A unity of sorts was achieved in 1924 with the final metamorphosis of the National Athletic and Cycling Association of Ireland (NACAI). This unity was not to survive as a range of political interests produced a tripartite institutional split by 1938 that inflicted near terminal damage on the sport and established a type of athletic apartheid as the practitioners of the sport in rural Ireland were deprived of international competition due to their membership of the unrecognized NACAI.