Conor Curran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Conor Curran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Conor |
| FAMILY NAME | Curran |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9661-0035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Physical education and games in Ireland’s reformatory and industrial schools, 1858–1922
Introduction: Soccer’s growth and development in schools in Europe: a history
Irish schools and the struggle for competitive soccer at home and abroad, 1877–2000
Liverpool daft’: The growth of British football clubs’ supporters’ clubs in the late twentieth century in Ireland - a history
This article examines the development of British football clubs' supporters' clubs in Ireland. While it has been previously established that this interest was at times linked to domestic and European success, and the fielding of Irish players, this article examines how these supporters' clubs facilitated travel to and from matches and how British clubs in turn nurtured this interest. How Irish supporters experienced major stadium disasters at Ibr…
The Emergence of Football: Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Swain's monograph The Emergence of Football: Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century makes an important contribution to one of the major ongoing debates within the historiography of soccer. This centers on the significance afforded to the public schools and their former pupils in the codification of the game, its spread, and the extent to which forms of folk football had died out by the 1830s. The book is structured around ten …
Education, retirement and career transitions for ‘black’ ex-professional footballers: From being idolised to stacking shelves
Paul Ian Campbell’s latest monograph provides a short but excellent account of the playing and post-playing career experiences of sixteen black former professional footballers, set between 1988 and
The cross-border movement of Republic of Ireland-born footballers to Northern Ireland clubs, 1922-2000
This article examines the movement of Republic of Ireland-born players to Northern Ireland for professional football purposes after the partition of Ireland in 1921. It traces how this continued after the formation of the Free State League in Dublin and shows how a number of players used Belfast clubs to move to those of a higher level in Britain. However, it primarily focuses on movement to Northern Ireland from Dublin during the Troubles (1968–…
Introduction: The growth and development of soccer in Dublin
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected sport in numerous ways. Euro 2020 should have seen the finals of a major international soccer tournament held in the Republic of Ireland for the first time in nor
The playing and working conditions of League of Ireland footballers in a part-time-professional football Euro 2021 host nation: The Republic of Ireland’s League of Ireland
In 2021, the Republic of Ireland is scheduled to host four European Championship finals matches for the first time. However, studies of players’ experiences of top level soccer there are scarce. This paper discusses playing and working conditions within League of Ireland football. In particular, it explores the non-football related work experiences of part-time League of Ireland professional footballers. It discusses how a number of players have …
The Migration of Irish-born Players to Undertake US Soccer Scholarships, 1969-2000
This article examines the migration of Irish-born soccer players to the United States of America to take up soccer scholarships in the late twentieth century. It will show that while Irish athletes had been moving to the universities there to undertake athletic scholarships since the late 1940s, it was not until the late 1960s that soccer players began to be recruited. Irish-American cultural connections often facilitated players’ movement, which…
Sport and Irish Migration: New Perspectives on its History and Development’
In 2020 it was announced that mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor will fight Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, a former World Champion at a record eight different weights, and the current WBA Welterweight Super Champion, in an exhibition boxing match in the Middle East.1 At the time of writing the bout appears to be in danger, with agents claiming uncertainty as to whether or not it will go ahead.2 Perhaps the best-known Irish athlete of his…
The Irish government and physical education in primary schools, 1922–37
This article examines the treatment of physical drill as a curricular subject in primary schools in the Irish Free State in the period from 1922 to 1937. In particular, it assesses the reasons why its status as an obligatory subject was reduced in the mid 1920s. It will show that the availability of facilities, resources and teaching staff with suitable qualifications were all considerations, while some teachers were not physically capable of tea…
From Ardara Emeralds to Ardara FC: Soccer in Ardara, County Donegal, 1891-1995
Historical case studies of individual grassroots soccer clubs in rural Ireland have been scarce. This article illustrates the failure of one town in Donegal to sustain a club in the face of challenge from Gaelic football. A soccer club had been established in Ardara in 1891 but was in decline by the 1920s as Gaelic football grew in strength there. In the 1980s a new club, Ardara FC, was organized by a local man with the passion, means and drive t…
New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History: Going beyond the ‘Garrison Game’
Returning home: The return of Irish-born football migrants to Ireland’s football leagues and their cultural re-adaption, 1945–2010
This article examines a number of Irish professional soccer players’ career trajectories subsequent to their return to Ireland from the United Kingdom. More specifically, we explore their experiences following termination of their careers there, their adjustments to life after their professional football careers as well as the options and challenges in relocating into alternative professions and migratory positions. Moreover, how players cope and…
Ireland’s Second Capital’? Irish Footballers’ Migration to Liverpool, the Growth of Support and the Organisation of Liverpool and Everton Football Clubs’ Matches in Dublin: An Historical Assessment
This article assesses the historical links between the cities of Liverpool and Dublin in terms of Republic of Ireland-born player migration to Everton and Liverpool football clubs, the role of supporters’ clubs and the organisation of matches involving these clubs in Dublin. While Everton Football Club had initially been more closely linked to Dublin through the signing of Irish-born players, the organisation of friendly matches and the establish…
Unscrupulous adventurers who are domiciled in ‘the land of the Almighty Dollar’”? The Migration of Irish-Born Soccer Players to the American Soccer League, 1921–31
This article examines the migration of Irish-born footballers to the American Soccer League (ASL), which in the 1920s emerged briefly as an alternative professional career path for some players rather than Britain’s soccer leagues. Players were attracted by higher wages, and a number of ASL clubs used agents and managers to entice Irish players or simply sent telegrams and letters. Despite the political conflict in Ireland in the early 1920s, rec…
Irish Soccer Migrants: A Social and Cultural History
Introduction to ‘going beyond the “garrison game”: New perspectives on association football in Irish history’
This special issue began to take shape more than 18 months ago over the course of a telephone conversation between both editors. This took place, appropriately, at half-time during a UEFA Europa Le
The development of schoolboy coaching structures for association football in Ireland, 1945–1995
This article offers a comparison in progress in developing coaching structures for schoolboys’ soccer in Ireland in the period from the end of the Second World War until 1995. It will be shown that in Northern Ireland, the Belfast-based Irish Football Association’s implementation of coaching courses was at a more advanced level in the decades immediately following the war, while the Dublin-centred Football Association of Ireland was hindered by a…
The Social Background of Ireland’s Pre-World War I Association Football Clubs, Players and Administrators: The Case of South and West Ulster
This paper examines the development of association football in the South and West Ulster counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Cavan, and Monaghan in the pre-World War One era against the backdrop of the sporting ‘revolution’ and the political and social climate in Ireland at that time. While the Irish Football Association was founded in Belfast in 1880 and the game’s early growth in Ireland was centred in East Ulster, South and West Ulster were areas w…
Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2015
Selected List of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History Published in 2014
The migration of Irish-born footballers to England, 1945–2010
This article will look at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born post-war football migrants to England using player interviews and secondary sources. The problems of cultural adaption, ‘bullying’ and anti-Irish abuse will be examined. The majority of Irish footballing migrants between 1945 and 2010 have not played in English football’s top division or gained senior international honours. Increasing recruitment of foreign players mea…
Selected List of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History Published in 2013
The following is an extensive list of English language publications relating to Irish economic and social history that were published worldwide in 2013. It consists of monographs, articles, essays and collections of essays. While this is not an exhaustive list, every effort was made to identify as many writings as possible. This was done by searching for additions to Academic Search Complete (www.ebscohost.com/academic/academicsearchcomplete), th…
Networking Structures and Competitive Association Football in Ulster, 1880–1914
This article examines attempts to develop formalised structures for association football in regional Ulster in the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Using the counties of Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Cavan as case studies, it will be shown that many clubs in these areas were rather isolated from the hearth of activity in the north-east of the province and developed independently without the assistance of the Irish Football Association…
Returning home: The return of Irish-born football migrants to Ireland’s football leagues and their cultural re-adaption, 1945–2010
This article examines a number of Irish professional soccer players’ career trajectories subsequent to their return to Ireland from the United Kingdom. More specifically, we explore their experiences following termination of their careers there, their adjustments to life after their professional football careers as well as the options and challenges in relocating into alternative professions and migratory positions. Moreover, how players cope and…
The Social Background of Ireland’s Pre-World War I Association Football Clubs, Players and Administrators: The Case of South and West Ulster
This paper examines the development of association football in the South and West Ulster counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Cavan, and Monaghan in the pre-World War One era against the backdrop of the sporting ‘revolution’ and the political and social climate in Ireland at that time. While the Irish Football Association was founded in Belfast in 1880 and the game’s early growth in Ireland was centred in East Ulster, South and West Ulster were areas w…
The Bank of Ireland, 1783-1946
Journal Article The Bank of Ireland, 1783-1946 Get access The Bank of Ireland, 1783-1946. By F. G. Hall. With an Architectural Chapter by C. P. Cttrran and Biographical Notes by Joseph Hone. Edited by Professor GEORGE O'BRIEN. (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), 1949. Pp. 523. 63s. and 18s.) G. Findlay Shirras G. Findlay Shirras Ballater Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
The Irish government and physical education in primary schools, 1922–37
This article examines the treatment of physical drill as a curricular subject in primary schools in the Irish Free State in the period from 1922 to 1937. In particular, it assesses the reasons why its status as an obligatory subject was reduced in the mid 1920s. It will show that the availability of facilities, resources and teaching staff with suitable qualifications were all considerations, while some teachers were not physically capable of tea…
Unscrupulous adventurers who are domiciled in ‘the land of the Almighty Dollar’”? The Migration of Irish-Born Soccer Players to the American Soccer League, 1921–31
This article examines the migration of Irish-born footballers to the American Soccer League (ASL), which in the 1920s emerged briefly as an alternative professional career path for some players rather than Britain’s soccer leagues. Players were attracted by higher wages, and a number of ASL clubs used agents and managers to entice Irish players or simply sent telegrams and letters. Despite the political conflict in Ireland in the early 1920s, rec…
The migration of Irish-born footballers to England, 1945–2010
This article will look at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born post-war football migrants to England using player interviews and secondary sources. The problems of cultural adaption, ‘bullying’ and anti-Irish abuse will be examined. The majority of Irish footballing migrants between 1945 and 2010 have not played in English football’s top division or gained senior international honours. Increasing recruitment of foreign players mea…
From Ardara Emeralds to Ardara FC: Soccer in Ardara, County Donegal, 1891-1995
Historical case studies of individual grassroots soccer clubs in rural Ireland have been scarce. This article illustrates the failure of one town in Donegal to sustain a club in the face of challenge from Gaelic football. A soccer club had been established in Ardara in 1891 but was in decline by the 1920s as Gaelic football grew in strength there. In the 1980s a new club, Ardara FC, was organized by a local man with the passion, means and drive t…
Ireland’s Second Capital’? Irish Footballers’ Migration to Liverpool, the Growth of Support and the Organisation of Liverpool and Everton Football Clubs’ Matches in Dublin: An Historical Assessment
This article assesses the historical links between the cities of Liverpool and Dublin in terms of Republic of Ireland-born player migration to Everton and Liverpool football clubs, the role of supporters’ clubs and the organisation of matches involving these clubs in Dublin. While Everton Football Club had initially been more closely linked to Dublin through the signing of Irish-born players, the organisation of friendly matches and the establish…
Introduction to ‘going beyond the “garrison game”: New perspectives on association football in Irish history’
This special issue began to take shape more than 18 months ago over the course of a telephone conversation between both editors. This took place, appropriately, at half-time during a UEFA Europa Le
The Bank of Ireland, 1783-1946
Journal Article The Bank of Ireland, 1783-1946 Get access The Bank of Ireland, 1783-1946. By F. G. Hall. With an Architectural Chapter by C. P. Cttrran and Biographical Notes by Joseph Hone. Edited by Professor GEORGE O'BRIEN. (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), 1949. Pp. 523. 63s. and 18s.) G. Findlay Shirras G. Findlay Shirras Ballater Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
The Development of Gaelic football and Soccer Zones in County Donegal, 1884–1934
This article examines the geography of Gaelic and Association football zones in Donegal between 1884 and 1934. It will illustrate where these sports were initially played and will show how, by the early twentieth century, soccer was the number one team game in the county. With the decline of competitive soccer in Donegal after 1915, a vacuum existed for the organisation of competitive structures for Gaelic football and the Donegal Gaelic Athletic…
The migration of Irish-born footballers to England, 1945–2010
This article will look at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born post-war football migrants to England using player interviews and secondary sources. The problems of cultural adaption, ‘bullying’ and anti-Irish abuse will be examined. The majority of Irish footballing migrants between 1945 and 2010 have not played in English football’s top division or gained senior international honours. Increasing recruitment of foreign players mea…
Selected List of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History Published in 2013
The following is an extensive list of English language publications relating to Irish economic and social history that were published worldwide in 2013. It consists of monographs, articles, essays and collections of essays. While this is not an exhaustive list, every effort was made to identify as many writings as possible. This was done by searching for additions to Academic Search Complete (www.ebscohost.com/academic/academicsearchcomplete), th…
Networking Structures and Competitive Association Football in Ulster, 1880–1914
This article examines attempts to develop formalised structures for association football in regional Ulster in the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Using the counties of Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Cavan as case studies, it will be shown that many clubs in these areas were rather isolated from the hearth of activity in the north-east of the province and developed independently without the assistance of the Irish Football Association…
Selected List of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History Published in 2014
Introduction to ‘going beyond the “garrison game”: New perspectives on association football in Irish history’
This special issue began to take shape more than 18 months ago over the course of a telephone conversation between both editors. This took place, appropriately, at half-time during a UEFA Europa Le
The development of schoolboy coaching structures for association football in Ireland, 1945–1995
This article offers a comparison in progress in developing coaching structures for schoolboys’ soccer in Ireland in the period from the end of the Second World War until 1995. It will be shown that in Northern Ireland, the Belfast-based Irish Football Association’s implementation of coaching courses was at a more advanced level in the decades immediately following the war, while the Dublin-centred Football Association of Ireland was hindered by a…
The Social Background of Ireland’s Pre-World War I Association Football Clubs, Players and Administrators: The Case of South and West Ulster
This paper examines the development of association football in the South and West Ulster counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Cavan, and Monaghan in the pre-World War One era against the backdrop of the sporting ‘revolution’ and the political and social climate in Ireland at that time. While the Irish Football Association was founded in Belfast in 1880 and the game’s early growth in Ireland was centred in East Ulster, South and West Ulster were areas w…
Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2015
Irish Soccer Migrants: A Social and Cultural History
Returning home: The return of Irish-born football migrants to Ireland’s football leagues and their cultural re-adaption, 1945–2010
This article examines a number of Irish professional soccer players’ career trajectories subsequent to their return to Ireland from the United Kingdom. More specifically, we explore their experiences following termination of their careers there, their adjustments to life after their professional football careers as well as the options and challenges in relocating into alternative professions and migratory positions. Moreover, how players cope and…
Ireland’s Second Capital’? Irish Footballers’ Migration to Liverpool, the Growth of Support and the Organisation of Liverpool and Everton Football Clubs’ Matches in Dublin: An Historical Assessment
This article assesses the historical links between the cities of Liverpool and Dublin in terms of Republic of Ireland-born player migration to Everton and Liverpool football clubs, the role of supporters’ clubs and the organisation of matches involving these clubs in Dublin. While Everton Football Club had initially been more closely linked to Dublin through the signing of Irish-born players, the organisation of friendly matches and the establish…
Unscrupulous adventurers who are domiciled in ‘the land of the Almighty Dollar’”? The Migration of Irish-Born Soccer Players to the American Soccer League, 1921–31
This article examines the migration of Irish-born footballers to the American Soccer League (ASL), which in the 1920s emerged briefly as an alternative professional career path for some players rather than Britain’s soccer leagues. Players were attracted by higher wages, and a number of ASL clubs used agents and managers to entice Irish players or simply sent telegrams and letters. Despite the political conflict in Ireland in the early 1920s, rec…
New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History: Going beyond the ‘Garrison Game’
From Ardara Emeralds to Ardara FC: Soccer in Ardara, County Donegal, 1891-1995
Historical case studies of individual grassroots soccer clubs in rural Ireland have been scarce. This article illustrates the failure of one town in Donegal to sustain a club in the face of challenge from Gaelic football. A soccer club had been established in Ardara in 1891 but was in decline by the 1920s as Gaelic football grew in strength there. In the 1980s a new club, Ardara FC, was organized by a local man with the passion, means and drive t…
Education, retirement and career transitions for ‘black’ ex-professional footballers: From being idolised to stacking shelves
Paul Ian Campbell’s latest monograph provides a short but excellent account of the playing and post-playing career experiences of sixteen black former professional footballers, set between 1988 and
The cross-border movement of Republic of Ireland-born footballers to Northern Ireland clubs, 1922-2000
This article examines the movement of Republic of Ireland-born players to Northern Ireland for professional football purposes after the partition of Ireland in 1921. It traces how this continued after the formation of the Free State League in Dublin and shows how a number of players used Belfast clubs to move to those of a higher level in Britain. However, it primarily focuses on movement to Northern Ireland from Dublin during the Troubles (1968–…
Introduction: The growth and development of soccer in Dublin
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected sport in numerous ways. Euro 2020 should have seen the finals of a major international soccer tournament held in the Republic of Ireland for the first time in nor
The playing and working conditions of League of Ireland footballers in a part-time-professional football Euro 2021 host nation: The Republic of Ireland’s League of Ireland
In 2021, the Republic of Ireland is scheduled to host four European Championship finals matches for the first time. However, studies of players’ experiences of top level soccer there are scarce. This paper discusses playing and working conditions within League of Ireland football. In particular, it explores the non-football related work experiences of part-time League of Ireland professional footballers. It discusses how a number of players have …
The Migration of Irish-born Players to Undertake US Soccer Scholarships, 1969-2000
This article examines the migration of Irish-born soccer players to the United States of America to take up soccer scholarships in the late twentieth century. It will show that while Irish athletes had been moving to the universities there to undertake athletic scholarships since the late 1940s, it was not until the late 1960s that soccer players began to be recruited. Irish-American cultural connections often facilitated players’ movement, which…
Sport and Irish Migration: New Perspectives on its History and Development’
In 2020 it was announced that mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor will fight Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, a former World Champion at a record eight different weights, and the current WBA Welterweight Super Champion, in an exhibition boxing match in the Middle East.1 At the time of writing the bout appears to be in danger, with agents claiming uncertainty as to whether or not it will go ahead.2 Perhaps the best-known Irish athlete of his…
The Irish government and physical education in primary schools, 1922–37
This article examines the treatment of physical drill as a curricular subject in primary schools in the Irish Free State in the period from 1922 to 1937. In particular, it assesses the reasons why its status as an obligatory subject was reduced in the mid 1920s. It will show that the availability of facilities, resources and teaching staff with suitable qualifications were all considerations, while some teachers were not physically capable of tea…
The Emergence of Football: Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Swain's monograph The Emergence of Football: Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century makes an important contribution to one of the major ongoing debates within the historiography of soccer. This centers on the significance afforded to the public schools and their former pupils in the codification of the game, its spread, and the extent to which forms of folk football had died out by the 1830s. The book is structured around ten …
Liverpool daft’: The growth of British football clubs’ supporters’ clubs in the late twentieth century in Ireland - a history
This article examines the development of British football clubs' supporters' clubs in Ireland. While it has been previously established that this interest was at times linked to domestic and European success, and the fielding of Irish players, this article examines how these supporters' clubs facilitated travel to and from matches and how British clubs in turn nurtured this interest. How Irish supporters experienced major stadium disasters at Ibr…
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