Gaelic Games & the Gaelic Athletic Association - Paul Healy PRICE:IRP£6.99 pbk. PUBLISHER: Mercier Press

The GAA is an Irish institution, as uniquely Irish as Guinness or the Blarney Stone. Gaelic Games and the Gaelic Athletic Association presents to the uninitiated or simply the interested reader the essential information on the Association and the games it represents; Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball. It answers such questions as:

What exactly is 'catch and kick'?
Who was Christy Ring?
Why did the greatest Kerry football team ever not win the five-in-a-row in 1982?
What is the 'Ban'?
What is the connection between the GAA and a) politics b) publicans?

Gaelic Games is racy, readable, irreverent and full of useful information.