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Giants of the Ash
Brendan Fullam

“This is an extraordinary book by any standards, in that it records for posterity the hopes and aspirations and personal motivations of the hurling giants from each decade who have, between them, elevated Ireland’s finest field games to being one of the world’s greatest sporting spectacles.”
- Séan O Síochain, former General Secretary of the GAA

“A great hurling book, Giants of the Ash has the nation’s history woven into it. Conversations courses through the pages as it flows through the living body of the game.”
- The Irish Times

“Giants of the Ash by Brendan Fullam is the first in-depth study of the outstanding hurlers of the century. Seventy-nine of the greatest players including Christy Ring, Peter Cregan, John and Michael Maher, the Rackards and the oldest among them, John T Power.”

“As you open the pages, you will hear again the roar of the crowds in Croke Park, the whirr of the flying slíotar and the unmistakable and unique sound of ash against ash.”

Author Brendan Fullam, who intends this as a first volume in an ongoing series, has interviewed these Giants of the Ash and their colleagues over the past fifteen years, and presents his text with contributions from the players themselves, with their photographs and signatures, and with their ideal team selections.

Every great game creates its heroes. These are the people whose skills, and stamina and achievements win them stardom, and who, in turn, make the game great. So it is too with the game of hurling – an Irish sport played by legendary heroes in ancient days and by modern sportsmen who have become legends in their own time.

Each generation produces its greatest players, and for sports lovers everywhere Giants of the Ash portrays the stars of hurling from the turn of the century to the modern game, recording their views and comments on the matches they played, on their fellow sportsmen and on changes and developments in the game itself.

In addition, the book includes many action pictures of games in recent years featuring many of the modern players. The first in Brendan Fullam’s classic trilogy on hurling and possibly his greatest!