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Like Chap. 5, this chapter is also concerned with amateurism and professionalism. However, the focus here is on changes in the amplification and de-amplification of professionalism and amateurism by particular groups over the decades. The chapter goes on to explain how this was interconnected with inter-organisational and intra-organisational competitive interdependences, the rising stress on both seriousness of involvement and achievement orientation, and the changing power balance between administrators and ‘elite’ players. The chapter concludes by explaining how these processes were also linked with the emergence of the concept of ‘player power’.
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The partition of Ireland meant a large group of people who identified with an independent Ireland were in a territory that remained under British control.
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These grants were paid by the Republic of Ireland state as a part of an agreement with the Irish Sports Council rather than the GAA.
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Connolly, J., Dolan, P. (2020). The Amplifying of Professionalism and Amateurism, and the Emergence of ‘Player Power’. In: Gaelic Games in Society. Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31699-0_6
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