The museum's collection includes over 180 items related to sport, primarily consisting of documents, ephemera, and photographs, as well as eleven pieces of sports equipment. Notably, the collection features five examples of road bowls, a traditional sport played on rural roads, now mainly confined to the counties of Armagh and Cork.
Find out more Causeway Coast and Glens Museums Service looks after five Accredited museums and their collections. The Sporting Heritage of these collections include photographs, programmes, documents, cups/trophies, costume pieces and more of local teams, sporting individuals and sporting events.
Find out more The sporting heritage collection includes documents, booklets and a large archive of photographs of local teams, sporting individuals and sports & social clubs in workplaces over the years.
Find out more As the world’s fourth oldest governing body, our collection covers 140 years of history with artifacts including the original minute book of 1880 to 1886, documenting the inaugural meeting of the Irish FA to the stunning British Home Championship Trophy. The collection also includes programmes, shirts and memorabilia of iconic matches and players from across the years.
Find out more Larne Museum & Arts Centre’s main gallery hosts permanent displays reflecting the history of the area, with a small display revealing aspects of local sporting heritage, including artefacts relating to swimmer Dianne Barr who won two gold medals at the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul.
Find out more See photographs of Irish Sport including motorbike racing, car racing and golf in Northern Ireland in the early 1900s.
Find out more The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is the official archive for Northern Ireland. PRONI has in its custody a wide variety of material relating to sport and recreation, ranging from popular sports such as football and rugby, to more obscure activities such as ploughing and water-skiing.
Find out more The National Archives manages a searchable national database of archives relating to sport.
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