Plucked from the streets of Dublin, Jackie Carey became a hero in both his homeland and Britain leading Manchester United to FA Cup and First Division wins, on the way to being named Footballer of the Year.
The quote “Football is the last sacred ritual of our time” from the great Italian film director, Pier Pasolini, pops up all the time in football books. A lot has been written on Pasolini’s love for football in Italian but almost nothing in English.
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Magazine, Issue 4. Donal Fallon examines Why did defunct League of Ireland club Dublin City FC fail?
The history of the women’s game on the island of Ireland is comparatively short, though it has had its moments of controversy, and brilliance, not least in the form of a young Inchicore player who became an Italian sensation, writes Donal Fallon.
“Were it not for the events of the revolutionary period, perhaps Traynor would have found fame as a footballer and not a politician.” Donal Fallon tells the story of Irish football’s Easter rebel, Oscar Traynor.
Donal Fallon, who charted famous games and events at Dalymount Park for Póg Mo Goal Issue 2, adds another to the archive from the spiritual home of Irish football. Ireland versus Scotland from 1913.
Famous games and events in Dublin’s Dalymount Park, known as the spiritual home of Irish football.
Famous games and events in Dublin’s Dalymount Park, known as the spiritual home of Irish football.
In the latest of our guest posts, Donal Fallon of the superb Come Here to Me website recounts an episode in the 1913 Lockout involving a football match between Bohemians and Shelbourne in Ringsend. Why did Jim Larkin’s paper denounce two players publicly as ‘scabs’ and call on workers not to attend the game unless to picket it?