In 1821, PH Clias travelled to England to take up a new job with the Royal Military and
Maritime School teaching gymnastics to prospective soldiers. On arrival, Clias also …

The study of masculinities in Irish history is a relatively new but thriving field of inquiry. This
collection, based on two symposia in 2016 and 2017 funded by the Irish Research Council …

Abstract Tygodnik Poznański (Posen Weekly) was a Polish-language magazine published
in Posen (present-day Poznan) in 1862–1863. The magazine editors focused mostly on …

Physical education and physical culture were part of the colonization process in nineteenth-
and twentieth-century South Africa. This happened in environments of militarism …

Physical culture describes a new socio-political interest in physical activity which emerged in
the late nineteenth century and became a global phenomenon. Physical culture was …

Using personal correspondence between brothers and cousins, this article explores the
leisure pursuits of young men in middle-class rural Ireland. It considers the geography of …

This article focuses on the nationalist side in revolutionary Ireland (1912–23), examining
concepts of bravery, heroic masculinity, fighting for principles and country, all of which have …

Fears of physical degeneration or deterioration took many forms in Ireland before the Great
War. Understanding physical degeneracy as the pervasive belief that a particular society's …

This study examines the creation and development of Irish Nationalisms in the post-Famine
period, focusing on the period 1860–1882 in the Irish counties of Mayo, Sligo, and …

Denne oppgaven utforsker sammenhengen mellom moderne styrkeidretter og historiske
styrketradisjoner. Gjennom å se nærmere på historisk skotsk steinløfting og de moderne …