110 Great Irish Rugby Moments

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Here are Irish Rugby's most legendary, celebratory and brilliant moments from the 1940s to today.

110 Great Irish Rugby Moments is a unique celebration of the sport's most significant moments. Featuring:
- Grand Slam Glory for both Irish Men and Women.
- A first Series win in New Zealand.
- A drawn Series in South Africa.
- European glory for Ulster, Munster and Leinster.
- Connacht winning the Pro 12.
- Ireland women achieve double defeat of mighty New Zealand.

These epic moments are based on exclusive interviews with the game's biggest stars and most colourful personalities including Fiona Coughlan, Peter Clohessy, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Willie John McBride, Brian O'Driscoll, Ronan O'Gara and many more of the great and good of Irish Rugby.

Enjoy a host of brilliant anecdotes and remarkable insights into the controversies, epic matches, thrilling contests and pivotal events on and off the field which shaped these 110 GREAT IRISH RUGBY MOMENTS.

'This is an informative, insightful and impressive account of Irish rugby's greatest moments from the pre Jack Kyle epoch to the post Johnny Sexton era. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.' OLLIE CAMPBELL

Author Bio

John Scally is a lecturer in Trinity College, but in his spare time is a writer and broadcaster. Since 1992 he has written forty books with cumulative sales of over 250,000 copies. He is the author of the biggest selling GAA book in Ireland, Raising the Banner: The Biography of Ger Loughnane, and for a few years his biography of Tony Ward was the biggest selling rugby book in Ireland.