With two new books to join his previous title, Mike Cronin, academic director of Boston College – Ireland, now has “three entries in the top ten of Best Irish Sports Books Ever,” according to a reviewer for the Irish Independent. One of his new books is The GAA: County By County, co-written with Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse. The second major publication from the team behind the Gaelic Athletic Association Oral History Project, it tells the story of how the GAA has left a unique imprint on every Irish county and Irish communities overseas. Cronin’s other new book is Places We Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage, co-written with Róisín Higgins. In this look at the history of Ireland’s sporting sites, the authors have created a “masterpiece …chock full of revelation,” according to the Irish Independent.