Unladylike : A History of Ladies Gaelic Football by Hayley Kilgallon

Unladylike : A History of Ladies Gaelic Football by Hayley KilgallonAfter first emerging in the 1920s, ladies Gaelic football was soon sidelined; breathless women chasing after a football was just too unladylike for the powers that be. Despite this resistance, the sport became a popular novelty act at local carnivals. And when the Ladies GaelicFootball Association (LGFA) was founded in Tipperary in July 1974, fifty years of extraordinary growth were set in motion. From writing the rule book to a membership of nearly

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