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Paul Rouse: The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling [2019] paperback ZDUBL and colleagues - this isIn 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an all Ireland hurling championship would be underway, under the auspices of a powerful national organization. The Hurlers is a superbly readable account of that dramatic turn of events, of the colourful