Fully updated to include Ireland’s historic victory over the All Blacks and their 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam.

From Jack Kyle's immortals to Brian O'Driscoll's golden generation, this is the story of Irish rugby told in the players' words.

Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland - all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and all the craic behind the scenes.But this is more than just a nostalgic look back through the years, it is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also as story of the profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of a brotherhood.

With exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby - told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Selected Bibliography
• Dedication Page
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue Eyes in the Back of his Head
• One Phoning the Wife, is it? Ah, Balls
• Two That was the Business with God Save the Queen
• Three We Weren’t Big on Aura in Moneyglass
• Four No Border in the Irish Dressing Room
• Five Was Cholley Doing 200 Scrums a Night?
• Six Ten Tickets! I Needed a Hundred
• Seven Doyler was Off the Wall
• Eight a Bomb – I Thought he was Dead
• Nine Dry Rot of the Lower Orifice, As the Man Says
• Ten Like an Elephant, Claw Wasn’t Forgetting
• Eleven Something’s Awry When Pa’s the Good Cop
• Twelve Lens – I Watched it in Strangeways
• Thirteen In the Creation of O’driscoll, I was the Butterfly
• Fourteen Paulie – He Just Had that Dog in him
• Fifteen Croke Park and the Clare Jersey in my Bag
• Sixteen We Played Like a Horse’s Ass
• Seventeen Deccie, What’s Going on, Man?
• Eighteen A Dream I Didn’t Want to wake up from
• Nineteen I Just Went Walking, Aimlessly
• Twenty It’s Been a Privilege
• Twenty-One They Weren’t Coming Back This Time
• Twenty-Two Johnny – The Biggest Balls on The Planet