400m hurdles heats and semi-finals, 31 July

Heat 1   Tisdall (Ireland) 54.8   Nottbrock (Germany)   Hardin (USA)     Semi-final 1   Hardin (USA) 52.8 (Olympic record)   Taylor (USA)   Lord Burghley (Britain)   […]

Lord Killanin:the Renaissance man of the Olympic movement

Lord Killanin was named president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in 1950, and in 1952 was asked to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 1965 he was named […]

An interesting and varied career

Michael Morris was born in London on 30 July 1914, the son of the Honourable George Morris and Dora Wesley Hall. His father was one of the fourteen families making […]

Punching above our weight? Irish boxing and the Olympic Games

Formal Irish participation in Olympic boxing had to wait until the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) re-formed in May 1920, following the hiatus of the Great War. Their first major […]

‘Robust fighting’ versus ‘scientific boxing’

‘Robust fighting’ versus ‘scientific boxing’The calibre of officials appointed to judge the boxing bouts was a perennial problem. Discontent often centred around a perceived disparity between the evaluation of ‘robust […]