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This chapter looks at the problems and complexities in the development of the hybrid sport of International Rules football, a composite of Gaelic football and Australian Rules football. The social function of the international series agreed between the sporting organisations responsible for governing the two national codes concerned the provision of playing opportunities for elite players at an international level. Both sports are nationally distinctive in that no other country plays them, so they function as symbols of national identity. Problems of developing a hybrid sport are due to the relative power balance between the ruling bodies of the original sports, in terms of the contribution of each sport’s rules towards the new code, and the irregular performance and lack of socialisation opportunities for the hybrid sport.
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At the end of every season a panel selects a team of players deemed best in their position in Australian Rules football; in the history of international rules it has been mainly All-Australian players who were considered for selection.
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A version of the mark was introduced into Gaelic football in 2016.
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Connolly, J., Dolan, P. (2020). Cultural Hybridisation as an Essentialising Strategy: The Development of a New Sport—International Rules Football. In: Gaelic Games in Society. Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31699-0_8
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