{"title":"Irish biography","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"my-greatest-race","title":"My Greatest Race","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-template--24837693866249__product-content\" class=\"shopify-section shopify-section--product-content\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-15466366009609-content\" class=\"product-content anchor\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-content__tabs anchor\" id=\"product-15466366009609-tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-tabs__content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-template--24837693866249__product-content-description\" class=\"product-tabs__tab-item-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-tabs__tab-item-content rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A harrowing, heartbreaking and yet heartwarming story.’ MARY McALEESE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘We all know Ciara as a warrior on the athletics track. Now she faces the race of her life with the same grit and determination we have come to expect from her.’ SONIA O’SULLIVAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘This book is devastatingly brilliant. Ciara’s life on the track has been world class and contrasting that with her cancer fight is compelling reading ... I genuinely couldn’t stop reading.’ DERVAL O’ROURKE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A raw account from the peak of athletic success to the devastating life-altering blow of cancer, Ciara’s journey is both powerful and unflinchingly honest - one that forces you to pause and reflect on what truly matters.’ DAVID GILLICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An honest, raw, and heartbreaking account of what it takes to fulfil your dreams and endure the pain of having them taken away. Ciara Mageean is a national treasure.’ JACQUI HURLEY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew Irish track athletes are as universally loved as Ciara Mageean, who has remained endearingly down-to-earth, candid and optimistic despite the dramatic twists and turns of her world-class career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2024 she finally won a European title, crossing the line to secure that gold medal in a moment of pure euphoria. Two months later, at the peak of her power, an excruciating injury derailed her once again, forcing an eleventh-hour withdrawal from the Paris Olympics. In the City of Love she went, overnight, from competitor to heartbroken tourist. Nothing, she thought, will ever be as bad as this … and then she got the worst news of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Greatest Race\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a sports memoir like no other, a devastating contrast between the elite athlete road that so few get to travel and the all-too-familiar cancer journey that so many do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McLoughlin's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58257081106767,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0476\/8104\/4641\/files\/images_6d70bf2d-093e-4ac9-b69f-ffba38708004.jpg?v=1784385116"}],"url":"https:\/\/mcloughlinbooks.com\/en-de\/collections\/irish-biography.oembed","provider":"Mcloughlin's Bookshop ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}