Article
on the Human Rights in Ireland site,
6 June 2011 |
David Keane argues for the importance of
the Dublin real tennis court from a cultural rights
perspective. |
Article in The Speaker, 7 June 1890 |
Many thanks to Brian Rich for bringing
to our attention this contemporaneous article reporting on the
Tennis World Championships, held on the Dublin court in 1890. |
Article in The Irish Times, 29 October 1998 |
Many thanks to David Lowry for bringing
to our attention this article covering the early days of the IRTA‘s
campaign to have the court restored. |
Article in The Irish Times, 8 December 1948 |
Many thanks to Mark Heffernan and his
wife for bringing to our attention this article discussing the
possibility of reviving the game of real tennis in Dublin, after a
visit by Fitzwilliam squash players to Manchester. |
IRTA publishes update leaflet, February 2008 |
Kárlis Zauers produced this brochure, mainly for
distribution at the Tuxedo Club tournament in the USA,
but generally available here. |
Article in The Irish Times, 27 May 1890 |
Many thanks for David Lowry for finding
and transcribing this contemporaneous report of the World
Championships, held on the Dublin court in 1890. |
Engravings from Victorian English publication The Graphic |
IRTA member Brian Rich discovered a page of engravings published shortly after the 1890 World Tennis
Championships were held in the Dublin court. |
Real tennis set to play again |
Following our 2004 AGM, the
Sunday Tribune published a very positive article about the
history of the Dublin court and our campaign. |
The ‘Lost’ Court of Cumberland Island |
Dennis McCarthy, an IRTA member
living and working in Atlanta, Georgia, writes about a
"lost and found" squash tennis court, and the
analogies to the situation of the Dublin real tennis
court. |
The 1890 World Championships
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The Dublin court was the venue
for the 1890 world real tennis championships.
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Adventures of an Irish Expatriate:
Real Tennis in Ireland
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Sile Reilly of the United States Court Tennis
Preservation Foundation visited the Dublin court on a recent
trip to Ireland.
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Lost Courts of Ireland: A Report on Dublin’s Famous Marble Court
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Ted Neville, secretary of the IRTA, wrote an
article which appeared in the April 2002 number of The
Dedans, the newsletter of the
United States Court Tennis Association.
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