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This chapter examines the issue of player violence in Gaelic games. It illustrates and explains how over time, in conjunction with expanding social constraints, players have come to adjust their conduct, gradually exercising a higher degree of self-restraint in the playing of Gaelic games. Certainly occasional transgressions continued to occur, but they became subject to increasing social scrutiny and reprimand. These changing thresholds of violence have occurred within the broader context of increasing social interdependences beyond the field of play.
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By the phrase partial independence, we mean that only 26 counties had attained a level of independence from Britain. It does not refer to the legal-political structures that continued to bind the Free State to Britain, such as the Free State’s membership of the British Commonwealth, which were part of Treaty with Britain in 1921.
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Connolly, J., Dolan, P. (2020). Gaelic Games and Player Violence. In: Gaelic Games in Society. Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31699-0_2
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