Sean Fagan

Sean Patrick Fagan (born 1964) is an Australian sports historian, author and journalist, specialising in early Australian history and particular the origins and local development of the popular football codes in Australia. He lives in Sydney and has written articles for Australian national daily newspapers, numerous sports magazines and official Australian Rugby League match day programs. He maintains the rugby league history website http://www.rl1908.com and has written two books The Rugby Rebellion (2005, Hachette Livre) and The Master - The Life and Times of Dally Messenger (2007, London League Publications), co-written with Dally Messenger III.
Centenary of Rugby League
He was one of the college of 130 experts commissioned by the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League in 2007 to select Australian rugby league's 100 greatest players for the code's Australian centenary celebrations in 2008.
He was a member of the Australian Rugby League's Centenary Historian Committee selected to advise on aspects of the centenary. Fagan was appointed Consultant Historian on the National Rugby League's 2008 documentary series A Century of Rugby League and was a contributor to League of Legends, a travelling museum exhibition developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia in 2008.
Other
In 2007 Fagan delivered the 9th annual Tom Brock Lecture, one of the ongoing activities conducted by the Australian Society for Sports History. He has provided sports history consultancy services to the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and to a number of corporations in the sports industry.
Bibliography
*The Rugby Rebellion: The divide of League and Union (2005), Hachette Livre, ISBN 0-9757563-0-3
**Reissued: The Rugby Rebellion Centenary Edition: Pioneers of Rugby League (2007), RL1908, ISBN 978-0-9757563-0-0
*The Master: The life and times of Dally Messenger, Australia's first sporting superstar (written with Dally Messenger III, 2007), Hachette Australia, ISBN 978-0-7336-2200-7

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