Tom Hunt
Tom Hunt is a native of Clonea, Carrick-on-Suir, County Waterford and is one of Ireland's leading sports historians. He holds a PhD degree in history from De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of Sport and Society in Victorian Ireland: the case of Westmeath (2007) and The Little Book of Irish Athletics (2017). He has contributed chapters to Sport and the Irish: histories, identities and issues; the Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009 and The Evolution of the GAA, Ulaidh, Éire agus Eile. He has also completed researching and writing the history of the Olympic Council of Ireland.