Canada's embrace of Gaelic games has provided wonderful memories for those of the Irish-Canadian community and has created an opportunity for all to discover an exciting facet of Ireland's culture.

The story of almost 300 years of Gaelic Sports in Europe - from the games fascinating yet invisible 18th, 19th and 20th century European history, to Irish immigrant influence, to Spanish, French, German, Italians and others, embracing Gaelic Football and Hurling as new treasure in their lives. The author examines how five clubs 20 years ago, became 90 today and why new clubs are springing up in countries that had never heard of Gaelic Sports despite cultural, geographic and economic challenges. The book revisits a long forgotten Irish Hurling Tour of Belgium, recounts the birth of a new Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) county board and finds out just why locals in Galicia and Brittany love Gaelic football, and also, why young Germans are passionate about hurling. The book also considers Gaelic Sports future in Europe and what this might mean for the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland.

List of members in each vol.

In the second edition of this groundbreaking social history, M. Ann Hall begins with an important new chapter on Aboriginal women and early sport and ends with a new chapter tying today's trends and issues in Canadian women's sport to their origins in the past. Students will appreciate the more descriptive chapter titles and the restructuring of the book into easily digestible sections. Fifty-two images complement Hall's lively narrative.