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Ireland participates in the European Kendo Championships for the first time

During the mid-1990s, Peter Sherriff, who had previously practised Kendo in France, moved to Cork and started a Kendo club there. Shunji Hasunuma, who had moved to Dublin from Japan for work, rented a squash court and found some students, after being told by the Gardaí that he couldn't practice in Phoenix Park.

Shortly after this, the Irish Kendo Federation was formed at a meeting between the Dub…

Contributors

  • Kendo na hÉireann

Subject

  • 1990s
  • http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept909
  • Kendo
  • Martial Arts
  • …
  • Sport
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  • Kendo
  • Martial art
  • Sport

Contributors

  • Kendo na hÉireann

Subject

  • 1990s
  • http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept909
  • Kendo
  • Martial Arts
  • …
  • Sport
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/84b9de50-e532-0138-3a1f-6eee0af7008a#agent-84bc1ee0-e532-0138-3a1f-6eee0af7008a
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/84b9de50-e532-0138-3a1f-6eee0af7008a#agent-84bade80-e532-0138-3a1f-6eee0af7008a
  • Kendo
  • Martial art
  • Sport

Providing institution

  • Europeana Foundation

Aggregator

  • Europeana Foundation

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Places

  • Dublin
  • Dublin city
  • Lourdes
  • Cork
  • Ireland
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Dublin
  • Cork
  • Lourdes
  • France

Identifier

  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/84b9de50-e532-0138-3a1f-6eee0af7008a

Language

  • en
  • eng

Is part of

  • Europeana Sport - Ireland's stories

Providing country

  • Europe

Collection name

  • 256_Sports_UGC

First time published on Europeana

  • 2020-11-26T13:46:52.903Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2022-04-29T10:37:58.631Z
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