Name: Old Parish. Notes on Hurling
SKU: 64822481
Price: 37.12 NZD
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Author: Ciaran Murphy
ISBN: 9781405973526

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin

Author

Ciaran Murphy

Year

2026

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9x1.5 cm

ISBN13

9781405973526

Old Parish. Notes on Hurling

Ciaran Murphy (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "Old Parish. Notes on Hurling"

'No matter if you're a die-hard hurling fanatic or you've never seen a match, Old Parish is well worth a read.’ Hot Press'Entertaining and thoughtful' Irish Independent---Hurling is Ireland’s national game – a source of fascination and pride, even to people who have never played it. Ciarán Murphy, a lifelong club footballer, used to be one of those people. Then he spent a summer trying to play hurling with a tiny club in the West Waterford Gaeltacht. Along the way he embarked on a quest to understand the history, geography and mystique of this extraordinary sport. Old Parish is the club of Ciarán’s father, a club where relatives of his are still deeply involved, and possibly the only place brave (or stupid) enough to take on a forty-one-year-old newcomer to the game. Predictably (and at times hilariously), Ciarán finds out just how difficult a sport hurling is to pick up when you’re in your sporting dotage, up against men who’ve played it since childhood. Ciarán also explores why hurling is played in only half the country; he investigates the origins of hurling clubs’ antipathy to football and the difficulties of establishing hurling in new areas; he looks into the mysteries of hurley-making; and he seeks to understand why, when a hurling legend refers to the sport as ‘the greatest game ever played by any man’, he has to be taken seriously. Anyone who has ever watched hurling knows that it is something unique and extraordinary. Old Parish explains why.