Will be doing a talk on the connections between @bfcdublin.bsky.social & the Mater Hospital this Friday for @culturenightdub.bsky.social in the Mater at 6pm & still plenty of time to get to Dalymount culturenight.ie/event/mater-...

An often forgotten Irish footballing great, Alex Stevenson passed away on this date 40 years ago. A piece about his storied and successful career here abohemiansportinglife.com/2021/01/04/a...

Delighted to be doing a bit again this year for the Dublin festival of History in my local library in Drumcondra. The focus of the talk this year is Peter Hoban, revolutionary, footballer, Trade Union leader and a local of Phibsborough dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/the-li...

I'll be doing a bit for @culturenightdub.bsky.social (Fri 19th Sep) about the connections between @bfcdublin.bsky.social & the Mater hospital including a whole host of footballing doctors. Will all be done & dusted in plenty of time to get to Dalymount. Details here culturenight.ie/event/mater-...

Harrison McCloy is the sixth former Bohemian FC player that I can find listed as having been killed during WWI. McCloy was a player for Bohemians from 1902-05 and served as a club Vice President from the 1905-06 season through to 1911-12. More on it here abohemiansportinglife.com/2016/06/29/b...

Lovely piece on Dublin football and beer, featuring some familiar names if you’ve read my book, ‘Shades of Green’ www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

In the course of writing this I was LOI-pilled. Absolutely radicalised by the Greatest League in the World

The ailing world of Dublin football and the misunderstood world of modern beer got bored of being forgotten and clubbed together. The result? Flourishing scenes for both. @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social heads to Dublin to drink beer, watch Bohs, and find out more. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

Looking for an interesting podcast? 🎧 Check out my new episode looking at progressive League of Ireland side @bfcdublin.bsky.social 🖤❤️🇮🇪 Download/listen 👉🏼 outsidewrite.co.uk/podcast-bohe... 🗣️ @gerrytastic.bsky.social #bohs #history

NEW PODCAST 🎙️ Start your Sunday with 35 mins on the history and ethos of @bfcdublin.bsky.social with head of climate justice, Seán McCabe, and historian @gerrytastic.bsky.social 👇🏼 #bohs #leagueofireland outsidewrite.co.uk/podcast-bohe...

This weekend's podcast is a BELTER 🎙️ Our topic is fascinating Dublin club, @bfcdublin.bsky.social ❤️🖤🇮🇪 My guests are head of climate justice Seán McCabe, and historian and long-time member, @gerrytastic.bsky.social, whose voice you hear in this trailer Sub/catch up wherever you get your pods

The podcast is back to weekly for August🎙️ NOW: South American fandom w/ Rodrigo Barneschi 🌎 3/8: Bohemians w/ Seán McCabe, @gerrytastic.bsky.social 🇮🇪 10/8: Zambian tragedy w/ Jay Mwamba🇿🇲 17/8: Politics of football shirts w/ @joeydurso.bsky.social 👕 24/8: State of the nation w/ David Goldblatt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

DROPPING SUNDAY 🎙️ 🇮🇪 We learn all about progressive Dublin football club @bfcdublin.bsky.social w/ Seán McCabe + @gerrytastic.bsky.social 🖤❤️ 🌳 Climate action 📢 Activist culture 👕 Those shirts 🏟️ Dalymount Sub/catch up wherever you get your podcasts Here's a taster...🗣️ Gerry Farrell #bohs

The podcast is back to weekly for August🎙️ NOW: South American fandom w/ Rodrigo Barneschi 🌎 3/8: Bohemians w/ Seán McCabe, @gerrytastic.bsky.social 🇮🇪 10/8: Zambian tragedy w/ Jay Mwamba🇿🇲 17/8: Politics of football shirts w/ @joeydurso.bsky.social 👕 24/8: State of the nation w/ David Goldblatt🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Upcoming on the blog and podcast: ✍🏼 NOW: #Groundhopping guide to San Lorenzo 👉🏼 bit.ly/4nTqTVH 🎙️27/7: South American fan culture w/ Rodrigo Barneschi ✍🏼 03/8: FC St Pauli museum and stadium tour 🎙️ 10/8: @bfcdublin.bsky.social w/ Séan McCabe + @gerrytastic.bsky.social

With the end of men's football at Goodison Park here's a bit I did recently about the famous game in 1949 when Ireland (featuring a couple of Everton players & future Everton manager) defeated England for the first time abohemiansportinglife.com/2024/10/10/g...

🎉Phizzfest, the Phibsborough Community and Arts Festival, returns this weekend! ❤️🖤 Included among the packed programme across the next three days are three Bohs-related events: bohemians.ie/bohemian-fc-... @phizzfest.bsky.social

New @phizzfest.bsky.social programme launched tonight with over 70 events tsking place. I'll be involved in some talks & tours in Dalymount and in McGeough's. Full details here phizzfest.ie

A new @footpolpodcast.bsky.social episode with Seán McCabe talking about some current and future initiatives at @bfcdublin.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1cR2...

Thanks to @gerrytastic.bsky.social for the share. Never heard this story before - the IRA in the War of Independence burning down part of Man City’s ground and being caught trying to burn down Old Trafford. www.rte.ie/centuryirela...

I'd highly recommend any of the books by my friend Chris Lee from the @outsidewrite.bsky.social blog & podcast. His latest effort, Shades of Green, is a part history, part travelogue of football in Ireland with some great contributors involved.

Bohemians have said they are aiming to teach pupils about the Irish experience of immigration so they have a better understanding of the situation immigrants here have, and that they are doing this through sport to make it more accessible to the children

Ian Harte when he hears that hard-up Premier League owners like Jim Ratcliffe, Clearlake Capital or the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just got asked for a 10% sell-on clause by a League of Ireland club.

For more on football in pre-partition #Ireland, listen to my podcast with @gerrytastic.bsky.social ⚽ Why soccer in Belfast and Dublin evolved differently ⚽ The birth of Dublin clubs ⚽ The national side pre-split ...and more! outsidewrite.co.uk/podcast-foot...

An ask for @bfcdublin & @LeagueofIreland folks. Am doing a bit of work to try and track down surviving members of Bohs 1974-75 title winning team to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their triumph. Have got in touch with 5-6 already but appreciate any help getting others.

Not the best photo I know but this Shamrock was carved by Rovers fan out of timber salvaged from Glenmalure Park. On display in the Little Museum of Dublin.

Thanks to @footballandwar.bsky.social for carrying my post on a brief history of football and sectarianism in Northern Ireland It's a theme that's unavoidable in the Ulster chapter of my upcoming book, and there are way more positive stories in the book Read on 👉 www.wlv.ac.uk/research/res...

Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

While Ferencváros are in the news in Ireland, as well as the significant right wing following they enjoy, here's a short video about two of their former players who were anti-fascist martyrs who saved hundreds from the holocaust. youtu.be/TIrqk22dwDY

Nightmarish shit. Nobody wants or has asked for this.

This is what happens when you know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.

Christmas games were a regular fixture of the League of Ireland for decades. The Leinster Senior Cup final would often be played on the 26th. In 1946 Bohs would win the final 11-0 with Mick O'Flanagan scoring 6 times against Grangegorman.

Trying to get back into a habit of writing more regularly. Been working on this piece for a while, about a United Ireland side taking on England in Dalymount in a pair of games in 1955 & 56. Fixing Tolka Park after flooding & the An Tóstal fesival. abohemiansportinglife.com/2024/12/23/u...

What are the best sport books you've read this year? 📚 For me, Eamonn Sweeney's 'There's Only One Red Army' about Sligo Rovers was an unexpected gem (HT to @gerrytastic.bsky.social) 'Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion' is an epic search for cricket in South America Not new books but great reads

🧵A thread on my upcoming book on #Irish football ⚽ 📗 Out via @pitchpublishing.bsky.social and available for pre-order NOW! 🗓️ Released 10 March 2025 It's part-groundhop/part-history of discovering Irish football as an outsider Here's the launch blog post plus thread 👇 bit.ly/3ZuaStC

Lol. They're proposing a plutocratic breakaway league and have the temerity to call it the "Unify League". You almost have to admire the brass neck of it.

5️⃣ LEINSTER I explore the Dublin powerhouses and football culture as well as the Louth clubs Interviews with @gerrytastic.bsky.social, @macdarabueller.bsky.social, @ffclubz.bsky.social and many others

1️⃣ NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 I can unveil that my third book, 'Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football' will be released by Pitch Publishing on 10 March 2025 📗 Here's the launch blog post with more detail and a thread on the chapters...🧵 bit.ly/3ZuaStC

Saddened to hear of the passing of former @bfcdublin footballer Kevin Murray. One of young stars who made such an impression as part of Seán Thomas' exciting Bohs team of the mid 1960s.

Greetings from Mussolini Junction.

A very worthwhile listen on the FootPol Podcast about why FIFA, UEFA & other sports bodies need to enact their own rules & suspend Israel, as well as outlining the brutal history of targetting, maiming & murdering of Palestinian players open.spotify.com/episode/2ntg...

The ramble down, in winter light, to the Strawberry Hall. Still a fiver a pint. And one of my old locals. Good Bohs pub.

My Da was big into photography when I was a little kid and used to bring this big clunky Nikon camera on a neck strap around everywhere. These are some pics of Ireland v Argentina in Lansdowne Road in 1980. Featuring a young Maradona.

It's a year away but already excited to be going to this! A band I always hoped I'd get to see live at a headline gig.

No idea what he means but there are many historical inaccuracies in Gladiator 2 (as is to be expected). One of which the portrayal of the Emperor Caracalla, who actually was a bearded soldierly type with a North African & Arab heritage.

Spotted last night. If it's an original and not just a good reproduction, it must be over 90 years old.

There are players who had a huge impact on Irish football, were stars & legends in their own lifetime but are now somewhat lost to the mists of time. Spent a bit of time creating a proper wiki entry for 'Big" Seán McCarthy, some pics here as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Mc...

Vermin.

All premier clubs bar UCD with their 2023 accounts published. Combined losses of €7.6m between the 9 clubs. Everyone losing money from €2.1m to €0.1m. Members clubs with the lowest losses, simply as they have no choice. Lets hope the party can continue or else 😬😬