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PLATE SECTION 1
2.After he made his International debut in 1905 Basil Maclear was described as the ‘greatest discovery in modern times’. (Picture courtesy Maclear family archives and Bedford School)
3.An All-Ireland champion athlete Paddy Roche ran in the London Olympics in 1908. (Picture courtesy Colm Murphy) See also page 36.
4.Frank Browning, pictured with his trademark hat and cigarette, played a leading role in Irish cricket and rugby. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives)
5.During the Great War hundreds of sportsmen enlisted and many used Lansdowne Road to train and drill. (Picture courtesy Henry Hanna and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association Archive) See also page 54.
6.Vincent McNamara and Harry Jack were referred to as ‘Macky and Jack’. They played together at University College Cork, for Munster and for Ireland. Vincent McNamara was killed at Gallipoli in November 1915 whilst Harry Jack survived the war. (Picture courtesy University College Cork archives) See also page 116.
7.Irish rugby international Jasper Brett played alongside Vincent McNamara in the famous 'Battle of Balmoral’, which is regarded as the most violent game ever played between Ireland and Wales. He died in February 1917. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives)
8.Michael Moran was the finest Irish golfer of his generation. He was the first Irish player to win prize money at the Open. (Picture courtesy Irish Life magazine) See also page 136.
9.Robert Gregory was a celebrated airman, artist and cricketer. After he died in 1918 W.B. Yeats wrote a number of poems in his honour. (Picture courtesy Cricket Ireland / Cricket Europe) See also page 95.
10.GAA player Patrick Corey played county football for Tyrone. A member of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, he died in 1915. (Picture courtesy Annie Bell)
11.Belfast man William Manning (back row, far right) was a member of the Antrim team that played in 1912 All-Ireland Final. He was killed in March 1918. (Picture courtesy CardinalTomás Ó Fiaich Library & Archive) See also page 73.
12.Wexford GAA team featuring Jimmy Rossiter (Middle row, far left ) who played in the 1914 All-Ireland Final. In 1915 he joined the Irish Guards and he saw action at the Battle of Loos. He wrote home saying he felt 'more nervous playing an All Ireland than an attack on the Germans'. He was killed in October 1915. (Picture courtesy Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library & Archive)
13.Irish cricketer Joseph Lynch was a member of the Yorkshire Regiment and died in 1915. (Picture courtesy Margaret Doyle, archivist, Clongowes Wood College)
14.Dick Moore was an Irish football international who helped Linfield become one of the best teams in Ireland in the 1890s. He died in Greece in 1918. (Picture Belfast Evening Telegraph archives)
15.The 1910 Edinburgh University cricket team featured two Campbell College old boys who died in the Great War. In the middle row (far right) is John George Anderson who would play hockey for Scotland. He died in March 1918. Beside him is Alfred Squire Taylor who would become an Irish rugby international. He was killed in July 1917. (Picture courtesy Edinburgh University archives)
PLATE SECTION 2
16.The Ireland hockey team that played Wales in 1912. Robert Morrison is sitting at the front on the left. Beside him is Harold Simms and behind him sits the captain Edmund Smyth. All three would die in the Great War. (Picture courtesy Irish Hockey) See also page 184.
17.Hymie McKee was a talented footballer who played for Cliftonville and Ireland. He joined the Canadian Infantry and died in November 1916. (Picture courtesy Cliftonville FC) See also page 149.
18.Harold Sloan played for Bohemians and captained Ireland. A natural goal scorer, he was one of the greatest players of his generation and helped Bohemians become a major force in Irish football. He was killed in January 1917. (Picture courtesy Ciaran Priestley) See also page 223.
19.Irish rugby team in 1896. George McAllan (pictured lying at the front) was the first schoolboy to play rugby for Ireland. He emigrated to South Africa and died in 1918. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives) See also page 204.
20.Irish rugby international Ernest Deane (pictured standing, far left) played for Ireland and Monkstown. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. He was killed in September 1915 as he helped wounded comrades. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives) See also page 243.
21.Arthur Cyril Bateman was a gifted sportsman who played cricket for Ireland. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and died in 1918. His body was never recovered. (Picture courtesy Kevin Cullen)
22.Falkiner Hewson (pictured middle row second from right) was an Irish international hockey player before the Great War. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and saw service with distinction on the Western Front. He died in India in 1918. (Picture courtesy Irish Hockey)
23.Considered by the press and his peers as a ‘high class forward’, Robert Balderston Burgess played for Ireland and the Barbarians. At school he played in a Portora 1st XV side which is regarded as one of the greatest ever Irish schoolboy teams. In one season they amassed 912 points and conceded just 34. He was killed in 1915. (Picture courtesy Portora Royal School/Robert and Hannah Northridge)
24.Rugby player Albert Lewis Stewart (pictured in the middle of the front row) played for North, Ulster and Ireland. He helped North win the Ulster Senior League in 1909 and made his Irish debut in 1913 against Wales. He was killed near Ypres in 1917. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives)
25.Mystery surrounds William Hallaran’s sole appearance for the Ireland rugby team. He was listed under a pseudonym which may have been used because his father did not approve. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives)
26.William Victor Edwards was a talented sportsman who excelled in many disciplines. In 1913 he became the first person to swim across Belfast Lough. He was a competent water polo player and played rugby for Ulster and Ireland. He was killed in Jerusalem in 1917. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives)
27.William John Beatty (pictured in the middle row, one from the right) made his debut for the Irish international rugby team in 1910. He played alongside fellow Ulstermen Alfred Squire Taylor and William Victor Edwards when Ireland beat France in 1912 in Paris. Beatty died in 1919 and was posthumously awarded an OBE. (Picture courtesy IRFU archives)
28.Irish rugby international Robbie Smyth was the brother of Irish hockey international Edmund Smyth. Robbie Smyth played for Ulster and Ireland and in 1903 travelled to South Africa as a member of a British Isles team. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and died in 1916 after being gassed in France. (Picture courtesy Royal School Dungannon/Paul Kerr)
29.The War Office often used sporting references to try to persuade sportsmen to enlist. (Picture courtesy Public Record Office Northern Ireland)
Note: Picture of headstones used to open Chapter 14 is courtesy of Lize Chielens.
