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Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 shortlisted for the Aberdare Literary Prize 2011

Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 has been shortlisted for the Aberdare Literary Prize 2011

The Prize is awarded each year by the British Society of Sports History to the best book on sports history in Britain or the best book on sports history written by a British author. Exceptional books on sport in other parts of the English-speaking world may also be considered.

Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History

 

 

 
The short list for the Aberdare Prize for books published in 2010 is as follows (in alphabetical order): 

Duncan Hamilton, A Last English Summer (Quercus)
 
Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi, Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (Cambridge University Press)
 
Kevin McCarthy, Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 (Cork University Press)
 
Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press)
 
Caroline Symons, The Gay Games: A History (Routledge)
 
Jonathan Wilson, The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches (Orion)
 
The winner will be announced at the BSSH conference on 2-3 September 2011.
 
 
Aberdare Prize Committee: Jason Wood (Chair), Dil Porter and Joyce Kay

Abuse: Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying on Ireland AM

Jim O’Shea who is a counsellor in Tipperary appeeared on Ireland AM this week to discuss the abusive relationship. Jim's book Abuse: Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying  explores boundaries and how abuse is an invasion of boundaries. It explores physical, emotional, verbal and financial abuse. The book looks at the abusive personality type, and examines workplace and school bullying. Child abuse is explored, and the issue of staying in or leaving an abusive environment. The question of what happens if one leaves and if it is possible to change an abusive personality is examined. A client’s story is contained in the book and this gives a human aspect to the exploration.