“Buses, Trains and Gaelic Games” will be launched in Dom’s Pier Bar, Donegal Town, on Saturday 30th January at 8.00PM.
It will be launched by Four Masters legend, Joyce McMullen. This work is a history of Gaelic games in Irish transport from 1885 to the present day. The author, Clogher man, John Cassidy, traces the path of Gaelic football, hurling, handball and camogie teams from the days of Charles Bianconi (the father of public transport in Ireland) to the twenty-first century.
The book includes more than one hundred photographs including a historic picture of former Donegal player the late Felix Gallagher welcoming the Sam Maguire Cup to Dublin Bus garage in Phibsborough in 1992.
The author may be contacted at; johncassidy92@yahoo.com
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