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"L'anglais tel qu'on le court": Antoine Blondin's "clichéd view of Englishness" in Tours de France: Chroniques intégrales de L'Équipe 1954-1982
(Liverpool University Press, 2014)
From 1954 to 1982, the right-wing French novelist Antoine Blondin wrote adaily chronicle for the three weeks of the Tour de France cycle race in thepages of the newspaper L’Équipe in which he was given the freedom tocover ...
The green fields of France: Ireland's sporting heroes and the Tour De France
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-07-06)
Irish cyclists have been a regular feature of the Tour de France. By examining the lives and feats of the various Irish born riders that have taken part in the world's most famous bike race, this paper demonstrates the ...
IRF Off: Connacht's fight for survival and the foundation myth of a rugby Identity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-24)
Last of the four provincial branches to be formed in 1885, Connacht
has always been fourth among equals in the pecking order of
Irish rugby. In the late 1990s, spiralling costs associated with the
administration of a ...