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    From the history of Irish sports to biographies of international athletics superstars, these books in our sports collection make for excellent reading. Whether you’re passionate about football, rugby, or any other sport, these books bring the drama, dedication, and triumphs of the sports world to life. Find your next great sports read at Chapters Bookstore!

    Joe O. Muircheartaigh: Princes of Pigskin [2007] hardback

    €9.99 – €24.70

    Kerry is the most successful county in Gaelic football with a long history and many heroes. This collection of interview-based essays surveys Kerry footballers since 1903, their first All-Ireland success....

    Dr. Bob Rotella: Golf is a Game of Confidence [2004] paperback

    €5.99 – €11.41

    From the author of the bestselling GOLF IS NOT A GAME OF PERFECT comes a masterly illumination of golf's mental game. When that book was published, Dr Bob Rotella made...

    Nick Townsend: The Sure Thing [2014] trade paperback

    €5.99 – €21.41

    THE BOOKIES ALWAYS WIN.Yet, for over four decades Barney Curley has proved himself a rare exception. The country's most renowned and fearless gambler, a man who will back his judgement...

    Paul Little: Shattered Dreams, Sliding Doors [2025] hardback

    €5.99 – €27.13

    Tells the definitive story of Ireland's infamous 1982 World Cup qualification campaign, while painting a vivid picture of 1980s Ireland through the eyes of a young football fan.By writer Paul...

    Ken Doherty: Ken Doherty - Life in the Frame - My Story [2011]

    €4.99 – €20.80

    Ken Doherty is one of the most talented and successful snooker players ever to have picked up a cue, and the only player ever to win the Under 21, Amateur...

    Jeff Connor: Wide-Eyed and Legless [2011] paperback

    €7.99 – €16.90

    A fast-paced, fly-on-the-wall story of courage, endurance, bungling, rows and cheating in sport's greatest marathonIn 1987, the Tour de France was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first...

    Andrew Downie: Doctor Socrates [2018] paperback

    €5.99 – €11.99

    'Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out. A stunning new biography of Socrates, the iconic captain of the...

    & Knight Cooke: The Bonnie Prince [2006] hardback

    €5.99 – €23.40

    Before Joe Cole, Dennis Wise and Frank Leboeuf were 'Here, There and Every ******* Where', there was Charlie Cooke. He arrived at Chelsea in 1966 as a replacement for club...

    Paul Canoville: Black and Blue [2008]

    €4.99 – €14.30

    Paul Canovilles story is one of extreme racist bigotry, shattering career-ending injury, a decline into drug abuse, battles against cancer, family tragedy and a determination to beat the odds. Canoville...

    Masaaki Hatsumi: Stick Fighting: Techniques of Self-Defense [1995] paperback

    €5.99 – €15.60

    A manual of self-defence techniques using a long or short stick. The book shows some 50 moves, each demonstrated in photographs with step-by-step instructions. Step-by-step instructions and over 300 photographs...

    Ireland'S Greatest Racehorses [2011] hardback

    €9.99 – €24.70

    These days Irish horses dominate jump racing, while one of the finest Derby winners of recent years was Sea The Stars. The greatest steeplechasing horse of all time, Arkle, was...

    Bruce Thomas: Bruce Lee [2002] paperback

    €6.99 – €16.90

    In the 1970s Bruce Lee emerged as the world's greatest fighting star - an accolade he has kept ever since. A star first in Hong Kong and then in Hollywood,...

    David Walsh: Inside Team Sky [2014] paperback

    €3.99 – €4.99

    The inside story of Team Sky's challenge for the 2013 Tour de France. After the victory of Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in the 2012 Tour de France, the pressure...

    Chris Lee: Shades of Green [2025]

    €13.99 – €19.50

    Join acclaimed football writer Chris Lee on a journey of discovery around Ireland to learn about one of the world's oldest soccer cultures. How did Association football - denounced as...

    John Perry: Sport Psychology [2023] paperback

    €22.10

    Think about your favourite sport. Now ask yourself how much of success in that sport is down to physical skills and how much is down to mental skills?We all know...

    Tommy Byrne: Crashed and Byrned [2008] paperback

    €4.99 – €15.70

    This is the thrilling, warts-engine-oil-and-all autobiography of the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared - the 200mph flawed genius of Tommy Byrne.It tells the surreal tale of a poverty-stricken...

    Herbie Sykes: The Race Against the Stasi [2016] paperback

    €5.99 – €13.00

    Cycling Book of the Year - Cross British Sports Book AwardsAn award-winning cycle book, this is an astonishing story of love and betrayal, of the madness at the heart of...

    Brian Corcoran: Every Single Ball [2006] paperback

    €2.99 – €14.99

    'You might never have seen a hurling game in your life, but within ten minutes of seeing Brian Corcoran play, you'd know and say, "That man with that helmet is...

    Eoghan Corry: The GAA Book of Lists [2005] paperback

    €6.99 – €11.41

    Can you name the ten phrases only used by GAA writers? Or ten GAA competitions that no longer exist? How about ten GAA players that have been to the Olympics?Do...

    Adrian Russell: The Double [2019] paperback

    €6.99 – €17.99

    The greatest achievement in GAA history finally gets its due: Adrian Russell's The Double is a singular triumph. - Michael MoynihanOn 16 September 1990, Cork's footballers ran out on the...

    Diarmuid O'Flynn: Hurling [2008] hardback

    €9.99 – €27.13

    Hurling is an ancient game, one that was used to practise and refine the art of war. Today, the tradition continues, the tribal passions remain and hurling is Ireland's greatest...

    Chris Taylor: The Beautiful Game [1999] paperback

    €6.99 – €11.41

    Latin Americans feature highly on any list of soccer's greatest ever players, and all debate about the greatest ever team begins with the Brazil sides of 1958 and 1970. Off...

    Marti Perarnau: Pep Confidential [2014] paperback

    €6.99 – €21.41

    'Access inside the changing room and behind the scenes that any journalist or writer would kill for - Perarnau's insights are astonishing' - Graham Hunter'Write about everything you see. Be...

    Carlo Ancelotti: Quiet Leadership [2016] paperback

    €5.99 – €21.41

    The legendary football coach finally tells his story and reveals his management secrets Carlo Ancelotti is one of the greatest managers of all time. With three Champions League trophies, and...

    Paul D. Staudohar: Golf's Best Short Stories [2000] hardback

    €7.99 – €21.41

    This book contains the finest writers of the twentieth century, from John Updike and P.G. Wodehouse to Paul Gallico and Don Marquis, and the greatest ever golf stories. Golf is...

    Jack Nicklaus: Golf My Way [2005] paperback

    €7.99 – €14.30

    GOLF MY WAY is the one book that presents a complete, in-depth, A-to-Z explanation of how this greatest of champions thinks about and plays the game. Unlike his other books,...

    Dr. Bob Rotella: Your 15th Club [2008] hardback

    €4.99 – €19.50

    Dr Bob Rotella, author of half a dozen bestselling books on golf, including Golf is Not a Game of Perfect, brings together his skills and years of experience as a...

    Sportsfile: Great Moments in Irish Football [2019] hardback

    €12.99 – €19.99

    Do you remember John Giles and Eamon Dunphy when they lit up the pitch, and not just the TV studio? Or Jack's Army beating Italy in Giants Stadium? Or Siapan?...

    George Plimpton: The Bogey Man [2016] paperback

    €7.99 – €14.30

    From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton spent a month of...

    John Leonard: Dub Sub Confidential [2016] paperback

    €7.99 – €20.80

    Dub Sub Confidential by John Leonard: a GAA memoir like no other.WINNER OF THE SETANTA SPORTS IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper...

    Ancelotti Carlo: The Dream [2025]

    €17.99

    One of the greatest football managers of our time tells the story of his illustrious career through his record-breaking seven Champions League wins. Featuring interviews with Jude Bellingham, Paolo Maldini,...

    Scally John: Where Heroes Are Made [2025]

    €9.99

    This book tells the stories of some great GAA locations and the people linked with them.It includes obvious places like Croke Park, the Polo Grounds, Hayes's Hotel, Biddy Early's lake,...

    Brendan Fanning: From There to Here [2007] paperback

    €6.99 – €17.13

    Rugby Union went professional in 1995. No country was more opposed to this development than Ireland, nor less prepared to deal with it. Yet, despite many disasters in the late...

    Adam Peaty: The Gladiator Mindset [2021] hardback

    €6.99 – €28.57

    Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the world's greatest swimmers'The most dominant sportsperson in Great Britain...

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