ABSTRACT

Recent scholarship has revised the traditional account of the origins of association football in Ireland, pointing to previously unacknowledged processes of diffusion independent of the developments in Ulster that were ultimately successful in establishing the code as a formally organised sport. This article completes this picture by presenting further evidence of early association football activity outside Ulster. It examines this activity in each of the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connacht and analyses the types of teams that were involved. It concludes that the economic and social character of Ireland outside Ulster – in particular the lack of leisure time among the non-industrial working classes, combined with the earlier diffusion of rugby football to those classes who did enjoy leisure time, and the unwillingness of organisers to utilise Sundays – militated against the mass uptake of the code at this time.

摘要

最近的学术研究修改了对爱尔兰足球协会起源的传统描述，指出以前未被承认的传播过程独立于阿尔斯特的发展，最终成功地将守则建立为一项正式组织的运动。本文通过提供阿尔斯特以外早期协会足球活动的进一步证据来完成这幅画。它检查了伦斯特、明斯特和康诺特各省的这项活动，并分析了参与的团队类型。它得出的结论是，爱尔兰在阿尔斯特以外的经济和社会特征——特别是非工业工人阶级缺乏休闲时间，再加上橄榄球较早地向那些确实享受休闲时间的阶级传播，