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HUMPHRIES, TOM: : Dublin V. Kerry: The Story of the Epic Rivalry That Changed Irish Sport

IRELAND.DUBLIN.PENGUIN IRELAND,2006.

ISBN 9781844880850.

IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn but a black ink initial J towards top right-hand corner of ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,sports action colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with blue,green and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of both bds and dw/dj are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing, dw/dj's top two corners minisculely rubbed.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - aforementioned ink initial J excepted.IRELAND, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-293pp [paginated] includes a prologue,20 chapters and an epilogue, acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram (Robert Browning),and contents list/table. DUBLIN AND KERRY.In the winter of 1973 they were the deposed royal houses of Gaelic football,consigned to looking out across their borders as bonfires burned on neighbouring estates.By the end of the decade they had re-invented the sport and changed the way we look at the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association). Dublin emerged from the wilderness in 1974,having entered the championship as 33/1 shots.Kerry's neatly plotted ambush came the following September.From that platform Kerry and Dublin constructed an opera of passion and revenge which reached its crescendo with the All-Ireland semi-final of 1977.The countries would contest two more finals before the decade was done.Dublin were waning,being beaten now by age and fatigue as much as by a Kerry side just discovering their own potential. Their story extended beyond football and beyond the the sidelines.In a decade cursed by recession and emigration,Dublin and Kerry filled a vacuum not just in the sporting arena but in the imagination of a nation. The rivalry and the revival that effectively saved and preserved the GAA for future generations was conceived in the minds of two men from different ends of the country. Kevin Heffernan,living in tree-lined Raheny,chainsmoked through the winters and thought obsessively of avenging his country's 1955 defeat to Kerry.In windswept Waterville hard by the Atlantic, Mick O'Dwyer devised the response which would create the greatest era and the greatest team ever seen. The men who played lived disparate lives but shared an overarching passion.Decades later they are united by the bonds they forged. Moran,Cullen,Keaveney,Hickey,Egan,O Se, Deenihan,Spillane - the names which illuminated those years are still magical today.The extraordinary men who were so driven then are as passionate today.From boys of summer to lions of winter,this is their story. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.

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