TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Michael TI - Green shoots: Irish football histories SN - 9781909245501 (hbk.) : AV - GV944 U1 - 796.334 WAL 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Liverpool PB - deCoubertin Books KW - Soccer KW - Ireland KW - History KW - Sport KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - More than a century after the Easter Rising, football in Ireland - like the country itself - remains divided. At the Euro 2016 finals in France, the country sent two teams the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Both teams did well - each managed by a man called O'Neill, each resplendent in emerald green and backed by noisy, good natured supporters - but still they were as much divided as they were united. 'Green Shoots' examines why, almost a century after one Irish Association became two, this is still the case ER -