Louis Bookman

Louis "Abraham" Bookman (6 November 1890 – 10 June 1943) was an Irish sportsman of Lithuanian Jewish origin who represented Ireland in both football and cricket.

[3] Three years later he switched to West Bromwich Albion, before World War I led him to return to Ireland to play for Glentoran and then Shelbourne.

He returned to the Football League of England to sign for Luton Town in 1919 and played over 100 games for the club before joining Port Vale in September 1923.

[2] Bookman was one of nine children born into an Orthodox Jewish Yiddish-speaking family in Žagarė (Zager) in the Russian Empire (now in Lithuania).

Adelaide, captained by William Woolfson (later founder and long-time CEO of a prominent Irish industrial firm), won the All-Ireland Under-18 Football Cup in 1908.

[3] Bookman began his senior football career in the Irish League with Belfast Celtic, who he joined as an amateur.

joined league rivals West Bromwich Albion for the 1914–15 season, but found that his football career was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.

[2] The "Glens" finished second in the Belfast & District League in 1915–16, and were beaten by Linfield in the Irish Cup final; they did though lift the County Antrim Shield after a 1–0 victory over Lisburn Distillery.

After the war, Bookman was bought by Luton Town for £875, where, despite being over thirty, he enjoyed the most successful spell of his football career.

[2] In 1914, together with Val Harris, Patrick O'Connell, Billy Gillespie and Bill Lacey, Bookman was a member of the Ireland team that won the British Home Championship.