Looking Back - 25 Years of BLE in Cork - Index
LOOKING BACK - 25 Years of BLE in Cork
CONTENTS
| Introduction by Paddy Hickey, Chairman, Cork County Board | Page 7 |
| Preface | Page 9 |
| Chapter 1 | FIRST STEPS | Page 11 |
| Chapter 2 | The 'seventies'; Growth & Development | Page 21 |
| Chapter 3 | Consolidation & Maturity | Page 31 |
| Chapter 4 | The Present & the Future | Page 39 |
| Chapter 5 | Club Histories Ballymore Cobh AC Bandon AC Belgooly AC Blarney - Inniscarra AC Dohenys AC Eagle AC East Cork AC Grange-Fermoy AC Leevale AC Mallow AC Midleton AC North Cork AC St Finbarrs AC
Skibbereen AC
Togher AC
UCC AC
Youghal AC | Page 43 |
| Chapter 6 | Modern Cork Olympians
Dave Guiney - London, 1948
John Hartnett - Munich, 1972
Barbara Johnson - Seoul, 1988
Mike Keogh - Munich, 1972
Fanahan McSweeney - Munich, 1972
Margaret Murphy - Munich, 1972
Liam O'Brien - Los Angeles, 1984
Marcus O'SULLIVAN (Los Angeles, 1984, Seoul 1988 & Barcelona 1992) Sonia O'SULLIVAN (Barcelona, 1992)
Donie WALSH (Munich, 1972)
Joe WEST (Helsinki, 1952) | Page 76 |
| Chapter 7 | Aspects of the Sport
| Page 94 |
| Chapter 8 | Personalities - In Order of Appearance | Page 107 |
| County Board Officers | Page 145 |
Acknowledgements;
Material - besides the newspaper records in the CITY LIBRARY, MARATHON magazine was a reliable source of information.
Photographs - again there were a number of sources; the CORK EXAMINER provided those on page 19 and 38. Fanahan McSweeney, Margaret Murphy, Dave Guiney, Owen FitzGerald, John Dooley, Fergus O'Donovan, John Buckley, Paddy Linehan, Pat Walsh, Marion Lyons, Donie Walsh, Pat Moore and John Walshe. My thanks too to all those who were prepared to stand and be photographed, sometimes at an inconvenient moment.
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