Bibliography of Irish Cricket
Articles in Books, Journals and Magazines - Ireland: General

Compiled by Pat Bracken

  • Bairner, Alan.
    'Wearing the Baggie Green: the Irish and Australian Cricket' in Sport in Society.
    Vol. 10, No. 3, May 2007, pp 457-75.
  • Bairner, Alan.
    'Irish Australians, Postcolonialism and the English Game' in Sport in Society.
    Vol. 12, No. 4, May 2009, pp 482-95.
  • Bergin, Stanley and Scott, Derek.
    'Ireland' in Roland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development.
    Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970, pp 554-56.
  • Davis, Richard.
    'Irish Cricket and Nationalism' in Sporting Traditions: Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History.
    Vol. 10, No. 2, 1994, pp 77-96.
  • Garnham, Neal.
    'Cricket' in S.J. Connolly (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Irish History.
    1st ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pbk 1999, pp 125.6. ISBN 0198662408.
  • Garnham, Neal.
    'The Roles of Cricket in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland' in Sporting Traditions: Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History.
    Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2003, pp 27-48.
  • Gemmell, Jon.
    'Naturally Played by Irishmen, a Social History of Irish Cricket' in Sport in Society.
    Vol. 12, No. 4, May 2009, pp 447-63.
  • Gibbs, Rowan.
    W.W. Robinson on the Cricket Field.
    Wellington, 2013. 56pp.
    Reference to William Henry Vereker-Bindon, 1853-1914, born in Co. Carlow - ex Trinity, pp 30, 53.
  • Golesworthy, Maurice.
    'Ireland' in Encyclopaedia of Cricket.
    6th ed. Robert Hale: London, 1977, pp 108-09. ISBN 0709160208.
  • Halliday, Michael.
    'Cricket' in Ian Foster (ed.) Irish Sport 1950-2000: An insight into Irish sporting success.
    Manticore Books Ltd.: Rickmansworth, 2002, pp 161-81.
  • Harding, Tim.
    'When Ireland first beat the English at cricket' in History Ireland.
    Vol. 19, Sept/Oct 2011, pp 28-30.
  • Keane, Barry.
    'Murder stops play - eventually! Gentlemen of Ireland versus the Military of Ireland, 3 June 1921.' in History Ireland.
    Vol. 21, No. 5. Sept/Oct 2013, pp 38-40.
  • Martin-Jenkins, Christopher (ed.)
    The Cricketer book of Cricket Disasters and Bizarre Records.
    Century Publishing: London, 1983. ISBN 0712601910.
    Featuring the following Ireland cricket related references:
    Horace Rochfort, bowling action (1830s), p. 15;
    Hampton Ewart, Armagh CC v, Portadown CC (1972), p. 16;
    Civil Service CC v Clontarf CC (1926), p. 45;
    St. Stephens Prep School - incident in a match with a swift, p. 83;
    Most informative scoreboard, Aravon Prep School, Bray v Old Aravonians (1974), p. 102.
  • Murray, Paddy.
    'Roscomroe Cricket' [Co. Offaly] in Relating to Roscomroe.
    Roscomroe, 2013. pp 247-250.
  • Percival, Geoff.
    'A Day of Reckoning' in Senior Times.
    pp 12-14. (Ireland v West Indies 1969).
  • Reid, Sean.
    'Identity and cricket in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century' in Sport in Society.
    Vol. 15, No. 2, March 2012, pp 147-164.
  • Scott, Derek.
    'Cricket' in Brian Lalor (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Ireland.
    Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 2003, p. 254. ISBN 0717130002.
  • Wigmore, Tim and Miller, Peter Second XI. Cricket in its Outposts.
    Pitch Publishing Ltd., 2015, 224pp. ISBN 9781785310133.
    Feature on Irish cricket, pp 36-65.
  • Wynne-Thomas, Peter.
    The History of Cricket: From the Weald to the World.
    The Stationary Office: Norwich, 1997, 268pp. ISBN 0117020486.
    Ireland references: pp 18, 26, 40, 67, 80, 106, 193, 248.