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I Can See It Still: All those years of Mayo. And then 2026. (All copies purchased signed by the author)
€26.00
Liam Horan has observed Mayo football from an unusually wide range of perspectives over more than five decades.
As well as being a lifelong supporter, he has been a player of, at best, average ability, a local and national journalist, club officer, chair of the committee that produced the controversial Mayo GAA Strategic Plan, and communications manager to the Mayo senior football team under two different managements.
These roles have brought him into dressing rooms, committee rooms, press boxes and terraces, while always remaining rooted in his own club, Ballinrobe.
No. 4 on The Irish Times Paperback Non-Fiction Bestseller List.
This book draws on those experiences, but it is not an official history – it is a personal account of a county and its football as he remembers and experienced it.
The book sees the day of light in the warm afterglow of Mayo’s historic 2026 success, but, like Mayo itself, was many years in the making up until that famous day.
This is Liam Horan’s third book – the previous two were Second Chance & Other Stories (Mayo Books Press, 2022) and On The Way Out (Savoy Editions, 2025). On The Way Out won the Gerald Griffin Competition for First Original Adult Fiction 2025.
Buy two books for just €48. Discount automatically applies to two or more copies.
Published by Townland Press
Liam Horan carries the reader through the highs and lows of Mayo football with pace, humour and a sharp eye for detail. The people, places and small moments matter every bit as much as what happens on the field. Lively, original and beautifully observed.
I can say without ambiguity that the breadth of Liam Horan’s involvement in Mayo football is impressively and dauntingly admirable: precociously shrewd supporter from a young age, as a player, even breaking the surface of inter-county, local and then, national reporter, radio commentator, chair of a major county development committee, media adviser to county teams, culminating in this book, a definitive chronicle of the last 40 years’ hard, but ultimately redemptive, experience.
The events of 2026 changed the way Mayo people could look back on the previous fifty years. Liam Horan uses that new vantage point to revisit the triumphs, disappointments and near misses, and to place them in the context of what finally happened. He has brought those decades together with great insight, giving the reader a richer understanding of the long road to 2026 and of what that extraordinary year really meant.
A great read.
Riveting for all Mayo fans, captures the journey of the Mayo teams and their legacy. A piece of history and at the same time immensely entertaining.
A heartfelt journey through the last 50 years of Mayo football, all its ups and downs and ins and outs.
This is a book as much about the journey as the destination, but what makes it a marvel is the way those two competing attractions came together on July 26....a story well told about Mayo's day of days, by a man uniquely placed to chronicle it.
I've just finished I Can See It Still, and I have to congratulate Liam on it. I thought it was like the stream of consciousness from Ulysses met the facts from The Green Above the Red, with sharp observations and humour thrown in to boot. I loved how non-linear it was and how it didn't fall into the easy match-report style of the big games. I think Liam is far too young for this to be his magnum opus, but I've seen lesser books get that title.
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