The History of Physical Culture in Ireland

Abstract
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Structure
Chapter 2: Combating the ‘Evils of Civilisation’: Recreational Physical Culture in Pre-Independence Ireland
	‘Physical Culture Is Applicable Right Through Life …’: Why Did Physical Culture Come to Ireland?
	‘The Object of Physical Culture Is to Bring the Body to the Highest State of Perfection …’: Deconstructing Physical Culture in 1900s Ireland
	‘The Number of Systems of Physical Culture Expanded Within Recent Years …’: Physical Culture in Wartime Ireland
Chapter 3: ‘With This Atmosphere of Unrest and Sinister Rumours…’: Military Physical Culture in Pre-Independence Ireland
	‘The Object of Physical Training Is the Production of a State of Health …’: Physical Training in Peaceful Times
	‘I Was Always Keen on Physical Training …’: Physical Culture and Home Rule
	‘If You Broke Your Mothers’ Hearts, You Won’t Break Mine …’: Physical Culture and the Great War
	‘I Myself Was Much More Interested in Physical Culture and Athletics than in Politics…’: Physical Culture and Revolution, 1916–1923
Chapter 4: ‘The Production and Maintenance of Health in Body and Mind’: Educational Physical Culture in Pre-Independence Ireland
	‘Souls of Fire in Iron Hearts’: Early Physical Education in Ireland
	‘The Conditions of Modern Civilisation’: New Directions in Irish Education
	‘Maintenance of Health in Mind and Body’: Physical Exercises for Schools
	‘A Methodical Course of Physical Exercises Beneficially Affects Mental Alertness …’: Physical Education in Wartime
Chapter 5: ‘Physical Culture Is Good for Body and Soul’: Recreational Physical Culture in Interwar Ireland
	‘That We Need Systematic Physical Training in Ireland Is Obvious to Anyone…’: A Nation Born? Physical Culture in 1920s Ireland
	‘Physical Culture Is Worthy, One Feels, of More Attention…’: Rebuilding the Nation in 1930s Ireland
	‘Movement Is Life’: The Women’s League in Ireland
Chapter 6: ‘Embracing the Whole Gambit of Physical Exercise’: Interwar Military Physical Culture
	‘Drill Is Not Peculiar to Military Forces’: Military Physical Culture in the 1920s
	‘The Irish Nation Looks, and Not Unnaturally, to Its Trained Forces’: Policing in the 1920s
	‘Physical Training Aims at the Acquirement of Perfect Health’: Military Training in the 1930s
	‘Fundamentally Man Is a Creature of Fine Proportion …’: Police Physical Culture in the 1930s
Chapter 7: ‘In Ireland the Subject of Physical Training Had Perhaps, Been Neglected’: Interwar Physical Culture in Schools
	‘A New and Awakened Interest in Educational Matters’: Physical Education in the 1920s
	‘Physical Education Stumbles Along …’: Physical Culture in the 1930s
	‘Promoting the Revival of Physical Education’: State Intervention in the Late 1930s
Chapter 8: Conclusion: ‘Physical Culture Is Nation’s Need’
Bibliography
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	Printed Primary Sources
	Online Material
	Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals.
	Secondary Sources
	Monographs
	Journal Articles and Book Chapters
	Unpublished Theses
Index