Academic literature on the topic 'Gaelic games, juvenile literature'

AbstractThe Gaelic sports of hurling and football, native to Ireland, are increasing in popularity worldwide. The injury profile of these sports requires multidisciplinary management by sports physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, and musculoskeletal (MSK) radiologists, among others. Advances in imaging modalities and interventional techniques have aided the diagnosis and treatment of sport injuries. In this article, we review the literature and our own institutional experience to describe common injury patterns identified in Gaelic games athletes, their main imaging features and relevant therapeutic interventions. We discuss the increasing prevalence of imaging services at sporting events and the central role of MSK radiologists in sports injury management.

Context: Groin pain is commonly experienced by athletes involved in field-based sports and is particularly prevalent in Gaelic Games athletes. The adductor squeeze test is commonly used in the assessment of groin pain and injuries. To date, no evidence in the literature provides the reliability of the adductor squeeze test using a sphygmomanometer in assessing the adductor muscle integrity of Gaelic Games athletes. Given the high proportion of groin pain encountered in Gaelic Games athletes, establishing the reliability of the adductor squeeze test will allow clinicians to monitor injury responses and to assess return-to-play criteria. Objective: To evaluate the intrarater reliability of a commercially available sphygmomanometer for measuring adductor squeeze values in Gaelic Games athletes and to determine if different squeeze values are associated with the 3 commonly used test positions. Design: Descriptive laboratory study. Setting: University clinical skills laboratory. Patients or Other Participants: Eighteen male Gaelic Games athletes without any previous or current history of groin or pelvic pain. Intervention(s): Each participant performed the adductor squeeze test in 3 positions of hip joint flexion (0°, 45°, and 90°) on 2 test days separated by at least 1 week. Main Outcome Measure(s): Adductor squeeze test values (mm Hg) quantified by a commercially available sphygmomanometer. Results: Intrarater reliability intraclass correlation values ranged from 0.89 to 0.92 (intraclass correlation coefficients were 0°, 0.89; 45°, 0.92; and 90°, 0.90). The highest squeeze values were recorded in the 45° of hip flexion test position, and these values differed from those demonstrated in the 0° and 90° hip flexion test positions (P < .05). Conclusions: A commercially available sphygmomanometer is a reliable device for measuring adductor squeeze test values.

Although Gaelic sports have been played in an organised fashion for over a century in the United States, academic research on the development and role of these sports among the Irish diaspora has been extremely limited. This is hardly surprising, given the more general disregard of the significance of sport in the burgeoning literature examining the Irish experience in America. In its most general aspect, this study seeks to redress this neglect. Drawing predominantly on archival material from the John J. Burns Library at Boston College and from Boston Public Library, the article charts and explores the processes involved in the transfer of Gaelic sports from Ireland to one of the most significant focal points of Irish immigration, Boston. This analysis not only identifies and examines the key agencies and individuals responsible for the early development of Irish sports in Boston, but also seeks to explore the role they played in the promotion and preservation of a distinctively Irish ethnic identity. In particular, the article assesses the extent to which Gaelic games have functioned as an arena in which Irish nationalism was fostered in the greater Boston area during the 1880s. Before turning to these central concerns, it is important to understand the social milieu in which these games developed. Thus the article begins with a brief context-setting discussion that charts Irish emigration to Boston and offers some insights into the socio-economic and political environment encountered by the Irish on completion of their journey.

Abstract This paper presents the study about technological involvement in game coaching. Attending multiple players with their performance and accuracy level checking is not feasible for coaches every time. Self-paced training sessions or self-learning methods are invented by different researchers & identify multiple games or the gaming apparatuses for different level automation. Methods used for analysis purpose & described the smart cricket ball & its circuit diagram. Tracking technology that are used in cricket, tennis, Gaelic football, badminton, hurling, rugby union, association football & volleyball, to visually track the trajectory of the ball, Centre of Percussion (COP) in cricket, Accelerometer & Swing angle model. Provides a systematic literature review of smart sport & various methods i.e, SVM, CART, ML, AI, CNN, SVM, ORB, SIFT & SURF. Lastly, future directions of research are proposed in the emerging field of SST.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine an ongoing process of logic assimilation within an amateur sports organisation (ASO) called the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It seeks to develop our understanding of how forms of accounting mitigated (or exacerbated) the tensions that arose among GAA members due to the consequences of the assimilation of select elements of a professional logic and a commercial logic within its traditionally dominant social welfare logic. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were undertaken with representatives and members of the GAA to understand the effects of growing commercialisation and professionalisation on the organisation’s traditional amateur status and social mission. In particular, the authors sought to understand how accounting, in the form of financial reporting, influenced the extent of the tensions that arose. Interviews were supported by an extensive collection of podcasts and news articles that discussed this topic. Findings The paper’s findings offer unique empirical insights into the role played by forms of accounting in the maintenance of amateurism within an ASO. It reveals the conflicting role of financial reporting within the GAA whereby it was used by the GAA’s management to ease member concerns surrounding logic assimilation while simultaneously being ignored by clubs and counties to facilitate payments to managers thereby eroding the amateur status of Gaelic Games. Originality/value The paper is unique in its exploration of logic assimilation within a form of hybrid organisation that has previously been unexamined in the accounting literature. It extends extant understandings of how accounting influences the co-existence of potentially conflicting logics. The paper also discusses the implications of what accounting makes visible and keeps invisible on the longevity of the traditionally dominant social welfare logic within an ASO.

Attraverso il filtro della letteratura periodica destinata ai ragazzi, questa tesi esamina alcuni aspetti della cultura sportiva irlandese per come venne a delinearsi durante la “Lunga Gestazione” dell’indipendenza dell’Irlanda, ovvero nel periodo precedente alla creazione dello Stato Libero d’Irlanda nel 1922. Un periodo, vale la pena ricordarlo, che vide il rinascimento della cultura gaelica, lo scoppio della Sollevazione della Settimana Santa nel 1916 e il trionfo del partito Sinn Féin sui Redmonditi nelle elezioni del 1918. Concentrandosi su questo tipo di genere editoriale, infatti, è possibile far affiorare una rete complessa di immagini, simboli e discorsi relativi alla cultura sportiva irlandese. La tesi è suddivisa in due parti. La prima è dedicata alla presentazione degli obiettivi di questo studio, dello stato dell’arte, del corpus preso in esame e della metodologia. L’analisi testuale, seppur in maggior parte rivolta ai testi di fiction e agli articoli dei periodici, si estende ad altri generi di scrittura, quali le corrispondenze private, i dibattiti parlamentari, i rapporti governativi. La giustapposizione di testi dalla natura così multiforme permette di cogliere gli atteggiamenti prevalenti e le usanze socioculturali dell’epoca, nonché le implicazioni politiche e culturali insite nell’ascesa del sistema sportivo in Irlanda. La seconda parte di No Shoneen: Gaelic Games e Athletic Hero nella Irish Periodical Press invece, descrive nel dettaglio le tappe che hanno portato all’emergere di un sistema sportivo irlandese e come i giochi di matrice gaelica divennero significanti culturali, segnalando la specificità dell’Irlanda in patria e all’estero. Questa sezione tratta altresì delle ragioni sottostanti la comparsa, all’inizio del Ventesimo secolo, di una figura che si potrebbe definire dell’“Atleta-Eroe”. Gli ultimi due capitoli di questo lavoro, infatti, espongono la connessione tra l’ascesa del sistema sportivo irlandese e l’investimento politico e culturale sui giovani irlandesi per dimostrare come i giochi gaelici aiutassero gli irlandesi nella formazione di un nuovo ideale di fanciullezza. Più specificamente, laddove il quarto capitolo si concentra sulla concezione del giovane atleta come artefice dell’indipendenza irlandese e pietra angolare di una nuova comunità – una concezione a sua volta imperniata sulla nozione di pratica sportiva come forma di preparazione militare –, l’ultimo capitolo delinea i contorni di tale mascolinità idealizzata e incarnata dal giovane atleta gaelico. L’obiettivo è mostrare come il corpo vigoroso dell’atleta sia stato opportunamente rappresentato ed esaltato in modo da neutralizzare le caratterizzazioni stereotipate degli irlandesi come inferiori e “bisognosi” del dominio anglosassone.
Through the filter of the periodical literature intended for juveniles, especially boys, this thesis examines some facets of the Irish sporting culture as it emerged during the “Long Gestation” of Ireland’s independence, i.e. the period prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, which witnessed the Gaelic cultural revival, the outbreak of the Easter Rising in 1916 and Sinn Féin’s triumph over the Redmondites in the 1918 election. By focusing on this kind of publishing genre, indeed, it is possible to raise a complex network of images, symbols and discourses related to Irish sporting culture. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to presenting the aims and objectives of this study, the literature review, the corpus being analysed, and the methodology. Textual analysis, if mostly focused on the fictional and non-fictional content of the story papers, extends to other bodies of writing: private correspondence, parliamentary debates, government reports, and periodical criticism. The juxtaposed analyses of texts of such a multifarious nature enabled me to understand the prevailing attitudes and socio-cultural mores of the time as well as the political and cultural implications of the rise of a sport system in Ireland. The second part of No Shoneen: Gaelic Games and the Athletic Hero in the Irish Periodical Press thus details the steps that led up to the emergence of an Irish sport system and how Gaelic games came to be cultural signifiers pointing to Ireland’s specificity at home and abroad. Moreover, in this section, I also discuss why the early twentieth century saw the emergence of what can be termed “Athletic Hero” as the last two chapters of this work expound the connection between the rise of the Irish sport system and the political and cultural investment on the youths of Ireland to demonstrate how Gaelic games assisted the Irish in the formation of a new ideal of boyhood. More specifically, whereas the fourth chapter focuses on the conception of the young athlete as the maker of Ireland’s independence and the cornerstone of a new community – a conception revolving around the notion of sporting practice as a form of military preparedness –, the last chapter traces the contours of the idealised masculinity embodied by the young Gaelic athlete. The objective is to show how the athlete’s vigorous body was aptly represented and extolled so as to counteract the stereotypical characterizations of the Irish as inferiors in need of Anglo-Saxon domination.