In this episode of Talking History, Dr Patrick Geoghegan reflects on the careers of some of the most iconic and prolific sports players connected to Ireland, alongside Turlough O’Riordan, online and digital editor for the Dictionary of Irish Biography, and co-editor of ‘Irish Sporting Lives’; Terry Clavin, co-editor of ‘Irish Sporting Lives’; and Helena Byrne, who wrote about soccer player Anne O'Brien (1956-2016), and is a digital archivist and curator of web archives at the British Library, deeply versed in the emerging history of women's soccer in Ireland.

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