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'We Are The Harps' will be launched on May 11
Members of Finn Harps' 1974 FAI Cup winning squad will held launch a new book on the history of the club.
Jim Sheridan, the Rathmullan man who captained Harps to Cup glory in '74, has written the foreword to 'We Are The Harps', which has been penned by lifelong Harps supporters Joe Doherty and Bartley Ramsay.
'We Are The Harps' will be launched in Jackson's Hotel, Ballybofey on Saturday, May 11 at 7pm.
Each one of the 628 players who played a competitive game for Harps between the start of the 1969 season and the end of 2023 is featured.
Whether they have played just one minute for the first-team, or 485 times as is the case with record appearance holder Jonathan Minnock, they are all included.
Milestone appearances are included as well as clean sheet records for each of the goalkeepers.
Every manager, from Patsy McGowan, who led Finn Harps into senior football, right up to current boss Darren Murphy, are also profiled.
From the famous to the infamous, they can all be found in this book and this is a record of their offering to Harps. Nowhere before has a record of those who have played and managed the club been gathered and presented in one place.
In 1974, Harps defeated St Patrick's Athletic 3-1 at Dalymount Park to win the FAI Cup for the only time in the club's history.
Video footage of that famous afternoon will be shown at the launch.
Joe Doherty and Bartley Ramsay are life-long supporters of Harps: Bartley first attended Finn Park for a mid-1970s pre-season friendly against West Bromwich Albion while Joe has been making the fortnightly trip down Navenny Street since first doing so for a League Cup game against Derry City in 1988.
Priced at €20, copies of the book will be available to purchase at the launch.
Subscribers and those who pre-ordered books will also be able to collect on the night (for those who indicated they wanted to collect their book).
Books will be available to purchase on Amazon from May 13.
The launch is free to attend and there is an open invite to everyone.
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