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If soccer wasn’t your thing, Shelbourne Park hosted from 1927 onwards greyhound racing as well as soccer. Better again, you could relive glorious goals and near misses watching, for a couple of pence, the newsreels before the main feature. As well as clicking through the turnstiles at Dalymount and elsewhere, you could find your favourite footballers in the back of cigarette packets, as cigarette cards with sporting heroes were reproduced for the Irish market. Dalymount Park was then the home of Irish soccer, and the game was in such rude health that as well as the Freemans Journal Saturday supplement, Sport, for a few brief years at least, a soccer-only newspaper, the Football Sports Weekly came out. Many of the staple sides of the League in that era were from the factories of Dublin including Jacobs and St. Over the course of the 1920s, these Dublin clubs would be joined by Athlone, Fordson FC formed by workers the Ford marina plant in Cork and by 1930, Waterford FC.
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PETER ROCKETT PLOTTER DRAWING 1965 FREE
The Football Association of the Irish Free State and the new Free State League following the split from the Belfast-centred Irish Football Association (IFA) would form a cornerstone of popular working-class leisure, particularly in Dublin, where the first new league season saw all eight teams coming from the capital. Infinite Variety: Post-Independence Leisureįollowing Irish independence and the end of civil war hostilities, leisure pursuits in Ireland experienced unprecedented growth.