Jim McGuinness’ memoir nominated for Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award

The acclaimed Jim McGuinness memoir, Until Victory Always, has been shortlisted for the Irish Sports Book of the Year award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards which will be held in the Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Dublin on Wednesday, November 25. 

The shortlist puts him up against Tomás Ó Sé, Henry Sheflin, Peter Stringer and Packie Bonner, all of whom have sports memoirs out this year. The public can vote for their sports book of the year at www.irishbookawards.ie/vote2015/.

The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards have been running for ten years and bring together the entire literary community – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise and celebrate the very best of Irish literary talent each year.