‘“A Youth Tainted With the Deadly Poison Of Anglicism”? Sport and Childhood in the Irish Independence Period’,

McElligott, Richard (2018) ‘“A Youth Tainted With the Deadly Poison Of Anglicism”? Sport and Childhood in the Irish Independence Period’,. In: Ciara Boylan and Ciara Gallagher (eds), Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 279-305. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 279-305.

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Abstract

Research into the history of sport and childhood in Ireland remains embryonic. In this study, Dr Richard McElligott explores how developments in the relationship between sport and children in contemporary Britain both heavily influenced and stimulated strong reaction in Ireland. Various organisations would now look to formal sport to project the values they wished to incubate among Irish society’s youth. McElligott investigates how schools, religious and lay youth movements, nationalist bodies and Irish sporting associations used sport as a means of appropriating the Irish child in the decades surrounding the creation of the Free State and the political partition of Ireland.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Arts and Humanities > History
Research Centres:	Other
Depositing User:	Richard McElligott
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2026 10:32
Last Modified:	17 Feb 2026 10:32
License:	Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0
URI:	https://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/1005

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