ABSTRACT
Yet the chapter had few surprising conclusions and, I would suggest on reflection that sport did not need separating out from the other chapters. Its content ought to have been integrated into the structure of the book rather than having been ‘ghettoized’.10 That is not to say that the chapter did not involve a valuable discussion of the intricacies of identities in the multi-national British Isles, in a period when Ireland was partitioned, granted quasi-dominion status and eventually left the Commonwealth, or when Wales and Scotland renegotiated their political arrangements within the United Kingdom, or when continued immigration meant that issues of ethnicity were played out on the sports fields of Britain.
