Book Launch June 18: Athenians and Red Invincibles: The Origins of Queensland Football

Murray Bird’s book Athenians and Red Invincibles: The Origins of Queensland Football will be launched in Melbourne on Thursday.

Athenians and Red Invincibles: Murray Bird’s ABC interview; Brisbane and Melbourne book launch details

Murray Bird was recently interviewed by Steve Austin on 612 ABC Brisbane about his new book on the origins of Australian footy in Queensland. The Melbourne launch is on June 18; Brisbane launch is June 11.

Footy History: Frank Ivory

Frank Ivory was Australia’s best Indigenous footballer in any code in the late nineteenth century. And he was a Queenslander, as Murray Bird explains in this extract from his book Athenians and Red Invincibles: The Origins of football in Queensland (to be launched on June 18 at 6pm at the Royal Melbourne Hotel.