Last week I was at Boston College in Dublin for a special Ireland launch of ‘Histories of Women’s Football in Britain and Ireland’ – a book I’ve co-edited with Fiona Skillen & Helena Byrne. It was a great night enlivened by the wonderful stories of women who played football in Ireland during the 60s-90s. We were delighted with the support we received and were thrilled with the stories we heard. Thanks to Mike Cronin and all at Boston College for organising this. Special thanks too to Helena who was rightly determined to do something in Dublin.
The book is of course something I’m delighted with and we were blessed with so many wonderful writers who supplied content/chapters for the book. I wrote a chapter on the history of women’s football in Trafford – it often gets lumped into Manchester’s history but the chapter (as do most of the chapters in the book) demonstrates why every district, area, town, city and country needs its own focus. For too long people have assumed that what happens in one location happens in another, but this is not the case.
You can find out more on the book here or by visiting the Peter Lang (publisher) website:
Gary James' Football Archive 