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Episode 1: Dave Hannigan on the allure of Roy Keane, sports history's rich ground and Steve Rushin's "How We Got Here"
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Dave Hannigan has written for The Sunday Tribune, The Sunday Times, The Evening Echo and currently writes the regular column "America At Large" for the Irish Times, covering all aspects of sports in the US, where he has been based for many years.
A professor of history at Suffolk Community College, Hannigan is also the author of a number of books, either on sport or history or the intersection between the two, including Boy Wonder: Tales From The Sidelines of an Irish Childhood and Drama in the Bahamas, the story of Muhammad Ali’s last fight against Trevor Berbick in 1981.
His latest book, Barbed Wire University, the story of the internment of Jews by Winston Churchill in England during World War II, is published in July 2021.
Stories mentioned in the show:
- Read Steve Rushin's "How We Got Here" in the Sports Illustrated vault
- Read Dave Hannigan's "Old ghosts still at play on a visit down memory lane" in the Irish Times
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