The relationship between Britain and Ireland — two islands united in one kingdom and bound — ensured that the British sporting revolution spread immediately to Ireland. On both islands the new sporting world was capable of transcending political, economic, social and cultural divides. It was also capable of underlining — even aggravating — such divides. Sport in Enniscorthy was a complex of class and gender and religion and geography and personality and political allegiance. The extremes of nationalist rhetoric and then rebellion, on the one hand, and the depth and strength of a sporting tradition associated with the sports of the British Empire, on the other, ensured that the sporting clubs of the town were presented as being organized for ‘foreign games’, or for the ‘games of the Gael’. This was a binary which did not take account for the broad swathe of motivations which account for the sporting tastes of people, but was, instead, a consequence of the reality of revolution — and its legacy. This article examines the impact that armed rebellion had on the sporting life of a country town in the south-east of Ireland.

不列颠和爱尔兰之间的关系-两个群岛联合在一个王国中并受其约束-确保英国体育革命立即传播到爱尔兰。在两个岛屿上，新的体育界都有能力超越政治，经济，社会和文化鸿沟。它还有能力强调甚至加剧这种分歧。恩尼斯科西的体育运动是阶级，性别，宗教，地理，个性和政治忠诚的综合体。一方面，极端的民族主义言论再到叛乱，另一方面，与大英帝国体育相关的体育传统的深度和力量确保了城镇的体育俱乐部被组织为“外国游戏”或“盖尔游戏”。这是一个二进制文件，没有考虑广泛的动机，这些动机说明了人们的运动品味，而是相反，它是革命现实及其遗产的结果。本文考察了武装叛乱对爱尔兰东南部一个乡村小镇的体育生活的影响。