What is the Emerald Isle?
Emerald Isle Classic Emerald Isle Classic The Emerald Isle Classic was the first NCAA-sanctioned American college football game played in Europe. The game was played at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, Ireland in the years 1988 and 1989. The first game featured a 2–7 Boston College team led by Mark Kamphaus against the 8–1 Army Black Knights. The originators of the game were Mr. Aidan J. Prendergast and Mr. Jim O'Brien. Mr. Prendergast, who is a former President of the Irish American Football Association conceived the idea of bringing a major NCAA game to Ireland in the mid 1980s and started pitching the idea
The Emerald Isle produced by his widow, Helen, who engaged William Greet as manager of the Savoy Theatre during the run of "The Emerald Isle". German, to this point, was known chiefly as a composer of orchestral and incidental music. "The Emerald Isle" was sufficiently successful to launch German on an operatic career. German's most famous opera was "Merrie England" (1902), also written with Hood, and Hood went on to a very successful career as an adapter of European operettas for the English stage. Unlike Hood's first opera with Sullivan, "The Rose of Persia", "The Emerald Isle" does not pay much homage to