# The Club

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- Book: [The Club](https://www.bookquiver.com/christy-oconnor/the-club) ([The Club.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christy-oconnor/the-club.md))
- Authors: [Christy O'Connor](https://www.bookquiver.com/christy-oconnor)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-966-9
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2011-06-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O'Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty: a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.