I Can See It Still tells a personal story of almost six decades of Mayo football
Mayo football across almost six decades, culminating in the historic All-Ireland success of 2026, and Liam Horan’s own experience of following the county through those years are at the heart of I Can See It Still, a new book by the Mayo author and journalist.
Horan will launch the book at Mayo County Library in Castlebar on Friday, 16 October 2026 (7.45pm, all welcome).
Published by Townland Press, I Can See It Still ranges across the history of Mayo football, the extraordinary 2026 season and Horan’s own years close to the county team as communications manager. But its canvas is wider than matches and results.
He writes about Mayo football as he experienced it, and about the people, places, incidents and memories gathered along the way. Personal and reflective, the book looks back across decades of following Mayo and asks, in its own way, what all those years look like now that Mayo have finally won.
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.
“I wanted to write about what Mayo football felt like from where I happened to be standing over the years. Sometimes that was on the terrace, sometimes in a press box or a dressing room. Then 2026 happened, and suddenly all the years that went before it looked a little different. This book is my attempt to make sense of some of that, and to remember the people, places and moments that made following Mayo what it was,” said Horan.
I Can See It Still draws on all of those experiences, while reaching back to the Mayo football Horan grew up with and the people and stories he encountered over the years. Football is at the centre of the book, but so too are family, place, memory, hope, disappointment and the peculiar hold a county team can have on generations of people.
The book sees the light of day in the warm afterglow of Mayo’s historic 2026 success but, like Mayo itself, was many years in the making before that famous day.
Horan’s previous books are Second Chance & Other Stories, published by Mayo Books Press in 2022, and On The Way Out, published by Savoy Editions in 2025. On The Way Out won the Gerald Griffin Competition for First Original Adult Fiction in 2025.
Pre-orders for I Can See It Still are now open at https://liamhoran.info/seeitstill/ and the book will also be available from bookshops.
The book is published by Townland Press and will be available from 16 October onwards.
