Gaelic Sport GAA Magazine, November-December 1983, Vol 26 No 5: The Magic of the Dubs – Dublin's 1983 All-Ireland win, Tommy Drumm, Heffo, Tony Hanahoe, Kilkenny hurling, John Caffrey

Gaelic Sport, 'Ireland's Leading Gaelic Games Magazine, published monthly', November-December 1983, Volume 26 No. 5 (cover price sixty pence), published by Gaelic Sport, 80 Upper Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9; editor Tommy McQuaid. Front cover: 'The Magic of the Dubs' – the dramatic moments at the end of the 1983 All-Ireland football final, with captain Tommy Drumm holding the Sam Maguire Cup aloft, surrounded by jubilant Dublin team-mates and well-wishers; 'The Choice of the Stars'. Contents: Editorial Comment by Tommy McQuaid – End of an Era, Dawn of an Era, on the GAA Centenary Year of 1984 and the state of hurling (page 3); Tony Hanahoe, Dublin selector, on the '83 final (4); The Magic of the Dubs – Jack Hickey (7); Galway are not bad sports, but this defeat will haunt us – Jack Mahon (11); Quiz Time – P.J. Lyons (15); handball – Tipperary's Tony Ryan – Sean Clerkin (19); The Dazzling Twelve – Myles Thornton (21); Heffo the miracle worker – Kevin Heffernan's tactics – John Downes (24); the editor's Pádraig Puirséal Hall of Fame award (28); How good are Kilkenny? – the final of the big wind – Noel Horgan (30); Dublin's half-backs – Peter Dunphy (35); taking 'Sam' off the capital – Eamonn Young (38); Gaelsport Annual review – Bill Kiely (40); camogie – a record year for the Leesiders – Agnes Hourigan (41); the '83 hurling scene – Joe McNulty (43); Junior Desk – Jack Mahon, with the late Tom Creedon of Cork remembered (46); John Caffrey – cut-out star of the month (49). Approximately 52 pages, A4 (about 21 x 29.7 cm), stapled, colour cover with black-and-white inside. THEMES: Dublin v Galway 1983 All-Ireland football final, the 'twelve apostles', Kevin Heffernan, Tommy Drumm, Kilkenny v Cork 1983 hurling final, GAA Centenary 1984, handball, camogie, Irish sports magazines of the 1980s.

Author: Tommy McQuaid (ed.)

Publisher: Gaelic Sport

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Good