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Dublin and Kerry. In the winter of 1973 they were the deposed royal houses of Gaelic football, consigned to looking out across their borders as bonfires burned on neighbouring estates. By the end of the decade they had re-invented the sport and changed the way we looked at the GAA.
The rivalry and the revival that effectively saved and preserved the GAA for future generations was conceived in the minds of two men from different ends of the country. Kevin Heffernan, living in tree-lined Raheny, chainsmoked through the winters and thought obsessively of avenging his county's 1955 defeat to Kerry. In windswept Waterville hard by the Atlantic, Mick O'Dwyer devised the response which would create the greatest era and the greatest team ever seen.
The men who played lived disparate lives but shared an overarching passion. Decades later they are united by the bonds they forged. Moran, Cullen, Keaveney, Hickey, Egan, Ó Sé, Deenihan, Spillane – the names which illuminated those years are still magical today. The extraordinary men who were so driven then are as passionate today. From boys of summer to lions of winter, this is their story.
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Dublin and Kerry, were the aristocrats of Gaelic football, with over fifty All-Ireland titles between them, but as the 1974 season dawned the fans of these two great counties could not have guessed what lay ahead. For the first time, Tom Humphries tells the full story of Dublin and Kerry, on and off the field, over the decade that followed a decade defined by a rivalry that lifted the sport to heights of drama and popularity that it had never known before. With his unmatched knowledge of the men involved and his characteristic stylishness, Tom Humphries is the only writer who could have told this great story.
For the Dubs it began with Kevin Heffernan and it ended with Kevin Heffernan. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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