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Sat 10 Oct 2009Uncommon images of common GAA people
BOOK THE GAA: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY: KEITH DUGGANis enthralled as he peruses a judicious selection of photographs and articles representing the inestimable crowds drawn to 125 years of Gaelic Games
TOWARDS THE end of The GAA: A People’s History, the authors make this observation: “Much of the fun in being involved in the GAA is its capacity for controversy”. How true. The GAA always seems to be either recovering its dignity after an unholy row or heading into the kind of flash squabble that perpetually distracts all Irish families.
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