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Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (2021) and a sports memoir, The Grass Ceiling (2023), both published by Sandycove.

Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, The Long Gaze Back (New Island) and Town & Country (Faber). She is a co-founder of the literary journal Banshee and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press.

She is a sports columnist with the Irish Examiner and has written about women in sport for Literary Hub, The 42, Image, Stranger’s Guide, Winter Papers and elsewhere. She lives in Cork city.

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	Holding Her Breath 3.60 avg rating — 2,521 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport 4.28 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Town and Country by Kevin Barry (Editor), Dermot Healy, Julian Gough (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cora Staunton: Great Irish Sports Stars (Sports Heroes Book 2) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dublin Review, Number 63: Summer 2016 by Brendan Barrington (Editor), Neil Burkey (Contributor), Rob Doyle (Contributor) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stinging Fly Issue 48/Volume Two Summer 2023 by Lisa McInerney (Editor), Anne Carson (Contributor), Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding Her Breath: Library Edition by Eimear Ryan (Goodreads Author), Clara Hart (narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dublin Review, Number 54: Spring 2014 by Brendan Barrington (Editor), Dominique Cleary (Contributor), Rob Doyle (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Everything That Is Beautiful

by Louise Nealon

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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

by Alexander Chee (Goodreads Author)

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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

by Vivian Gornick

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“An rud is annamh is iontach. A uniquely Irish phrase, not just in language but in attitude. We’re a post-colonial nation, and in many ways we don’t expect – or even, in a stubborn way, want – too many nice things. Going without will make the having, whenever it comes along, all the sweeter. That’s the reasoning, anyway. It’s why culturally we love when teams end famines and are deeply suspicious of anything more than a three-in-a-row.”
― Eimear Ryan, The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport

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