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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…
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- Kendo na hÉireann
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- 1990s
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- Kendo
- Martial Arts
- …
- Sport
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- Kendo
- Martial art
- Republic of Ireland
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- Kendo na hÉireann
Subject
- 1990s
- http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept909
- Kendo
- Martial Arts
- …
- Sport
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- Kendo
- Martial art
- Republic of Ireland
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- Dublin
- Dublin city
- Lourdes
- Cork
- Ireland
- Republic of Ireland
- Lourdes
- France
- Dublin
- Republic of Ireland
- Cork
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- en
- eng
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- Europeana Sport - Ireland's stories
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- Europe
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First time published on Europeana
- 2020-11-25T09:41:15.917Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-04-29T08:34:28.868Z