JIM MCGUINNESS’S ‘UNTIL VICTORY ALWAYS – A MEMOIR’ was last night named as Sports Book of the Year at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015.
The memoir, which was ghost-written by Irish Times chief sportswriter Keith Duggan from Ballyshannon, chronicles McGuinness’s four years as Donegal senior team manager between 2011 and 2014, as well as giving some fascinating insight into the life of the Glenties native.
During McGuinness’s tenure Donegal won the 2012 All-Ireland championship as well as three Ulster SFC titles.
The full list of winners in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015 are:
Eason Book Club Novel of the Year
The Green Road by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year
The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers edited by Sinéad Gleeson (New Island Books)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Junior)
Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)
Asking For It by Louise O’ Neill (Quercus Books)
Avonmore Cookbook of the Year
The Virtuous Tart by Susan Jane White (Gill & Macmillan)
Ireland AM Crime Book of the Year
After the Fire by Jane Casey (Ebury Press)
Irish Independent Popular Fiction Book of the Year
The Way We Were by Sinead Moriarty (Penguin Ireland)
National Book Tokens Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy (Hachette Books Ireland)
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year
Until Victory Always: A Memoir by Jim McGuinness (Gill & Macmillan)
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume (Tramp Press)
Books Are My Bag Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Me and My Mate Jeffrey by Niall Breslin (Hachette Books Ireland)
RTÉ Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award
Irelandopedia by Fatti and John Burke (Gill & Macmillan)
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
A Slanting of the Sun by Donal Ryan (A Slanting of the Sun, Doubleday)
