No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland

Fully updated to include Ireland's historic victory over the All Blacks and their 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam.

From Jack Kyle's immortals to Brian O'Driscoll's golden generation, this is the story of Irish rugby told in the players' words.

Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland - all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and all the craic behind the scenes.But this is more than just a nostalgic look back through the years, it is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also as story of the profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of a brotherhood.

With exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby - told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.

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No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland

Fully updated to include Ireland's historic victory over the All Blacks and their 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam.

From Jack Kyle's immortals to Brian O'Driscoll's golden generation, this is the story of Irish rugby told in the players' words.

Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland - all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and all the craic behind the scenes.But this is more than just a nostalgic look back through the years, it is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also as story of the profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of a brotherhood.

With exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby - told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.

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No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland

by Tom English
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Fully updated to include Ireland's historic victory over the All Blacks and their 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam.

From Jack Kyle's immortals to Brian O'Driscoll's golden generation, this is the story of Irish rugby told in the players' words.

Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland - all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and all the craic behind the scenes.But this is more than just a nostalgic look back through the years, it is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also as story of the profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of a brotherhood.

With exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby - told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857908445
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Publication date: 11/01/2015
Series: Behind the Jersey Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 14 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Tom English is an award-winning BBC sport writer and broadcaster. A former chief sport writer for the Scotland on Sunday he was voted Scottish Sport's Feature Writer of the Year by the Scottish Press Association for three years running. He has held posts with The Sunday Times, Sunday Express and the Scotsman. He won Rugby Book of the Year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards for his account of the 1990 Grand Slam showdown, The Grudge, and is a co-author of the best-selling When Lions Roared.


 Tom English   is an award-winning BBC Sport writer and broadcaster. He won Rugby Book of the Year at the 2011 British Sports Book Awards for  The Grudge , before claiming the prize again in 2016 for  No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland . He is a co-author of the best-selling  Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions .  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Prologue: Eyes in the Back of his Head 1

1 Phoning the Wife, Is It? Ah, Balls 1

2 That was the Business with God Save the Queen 17

3 We Weren't Big on Aura in Moneyglass 29

4 No Border in the Irish Dressing Room 47

5 Was Cholley Doing 200 Scrums a Night? 71

6 Ten Tickets! I Needed a Hundred 93

7 Doyler was off the Wall 113

8 A Bomb-I Thought he was Dead 125

9 Dry Rot of the Lower Orifice, as the Man Says 141

10 Like an Elephant, Claw Wasn't Forgetting 161

11 Something's Awry When Pa's the Good Cop 173

12 Lens - I Watched it in Strangeways 185

13 In the Creation of O'Driscoll, I was the Butterfly 205

14 Paulie - He Just Had That Dog in Him 227

15 Croke Park and the Clare Jersey in My Bag 245

16 We Played Like a Horse's Ass 265

17 Deccie, What's Going on, Man? 277

18 A Dream I Didn't Want to Wake Up From 297

19 I Just Went Walking, Aimlessly 309

20 It's Been a Privilege 321

21 They Weren't Coming Back This Time 355

22 Johnny-The Biggest Balls on the Planet 369

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