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'''James K. McQuaid''' (born 1920) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[road racing cyclist]] and later cycling administrator, coach and team manager from [[Dungannon]], [[County Tyrone]], Northern Ireland, for most of his life based in [[Dublin]], Ireland.<ref name="PatMcQ interview"></ref> From a family that became prominent in Irish cycling, he raced competitively, co-founded a cycle racing club.<ref name="Emerald">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and served on the committee of the national cycling federation.
==Life==
McQuaid was born in 1920 in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone,<ref name="Ras Daly">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> with one elder brother, and a sister.<ref name="Obit">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> A Roman Catholic, he married a Protestant, and due to the atmosphere at the time in Northern Ireland they decided to move to Dublin in 1948,<ref name="Ascent">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> as Jim's elder brother Paddy had done a year earlier.<ref name="Ascent"/><ref name="PatMcQ interview"/> Jim set up a greengrocery, with a small bakery, in the small district of [[Ballygall]], between [[Glasnevin]] and [[Finglas]] in the northwestern Dublin suburbs.<ref name="PatMcQ interview"/> Jim and Madge McQuaid continued to live in Dublin, and had seven sons and three daughters.<ref name="PatMcQ interview"/>
===Cycling career===
McQuaid and his brother [[Paddy McQuaid|Paddy]] had already been racing in Northern Ireland, in both track and road disciplines, and continued in their new home, both seeking national and international competition.<ref name="Ras Daly"/> In 1949, Paddy was a key driver in the foundation of Ireland's new internationally recognised cycling federation, CRE, partly to ensure access to international competition, and Jim was also involved.<ref name="Ras Daly"/>
Jim and Paddy McQuaid founded a cycle racing club, Emerald Cycling Club (sometimes Emerald Cycle Racing Club), in late 1949. They kept it small and selective, aiming for high race performance;<ref name="Emerald"/> the club survived until the late 1990s, racing nationally and internationally.
====National competition====
McQuaid raced competitively from the 1940s to the early 1960s. He participated in National Athletics and Cycling Association,<ref name="NACA47">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Athletics Board and club races, initially racing for Harp Cycle Club,<ref name="Harp cite">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and later participated in events approved by the CRE, and raced under Emerald club colours. He won a range of national titles, at distances from 440 yards to 200 kilometres,<ref name="Olympic mgr"/> including the Grand Prix of Ireland six times between 1951 and 1961,<ref name="PatMcQ interview"/> and a number of annual club prizes, such as the Hercules Challenge Club of the [[Dublin Wheelers]].
====International competition====
McQuaid competed in the World Championships in six countries,<ref name="Olympic mgr"/> including each year from 1951 to 1954. He was also selected for the 1948 Olympic Games<ref name="Emerald"/> but internal disputes in Irish cycling and the position of the international governing body regarding these prevented his actually participating.
McQuaid was also selected, for example, to a joint team from Ireland (CRE) and Northern Ireland (NICF) in 1953, to compete in both road race and sprint competitions in Zurich.<ref name="Zurich 1953">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
He retired from competitive cycling in 1963.<ref name="Olympic mgr">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
====Sport administration and team management====
In 1958 McQuaid also became involved in the national administration of cycling, securing election as an ordinary committee member of the internationally-recognised cycling federation, the CRE. In 1959 and 1960 he was elected as Track Racing Secretary, and he later served again as a committee member. After a gap he ran for the post of International Secretary for 1974, serving for a year; running for 1974, he lost to the national executive's first female member, Elizabeth Corcoran, but he served one more term in that role, elected in November 1977.
McQuaid also managed teams representing Ireland for international events, including the Olympic Games (in Mexico in 1968)<ref name="Olympic mgr"/> and the Tour of Britain.<ref name="Officials 1976">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
===Commercial activities===
McQuaid founded McQuaid Cycles in 1974, and over time it had shops at at least four locations across Dublin (the family also had a wholesale bike import business);<ref name="Family closure">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> the original shop, in [[Ballygall]], between Glasnevin and Finglas, remains in business, as of 2019.<ref name="About McQ cycles"></ref>
==Personal life==
The McQuaids' children all became involved in Irish cycling affairs, all seven boys cycling competitively, and the three girls becoming involved in race promotion and marketing.<ref name="Obit"/> Six of the boys competed internationally,<ref name="Ras Daly"/> including at the Olympics, and the eldest, [[Pat McQuaid|Pat]], progressed to a short professional career, a longer career in coaching and national administration, and eventually headed the world governing body for cycling, the UCI, for two terms.<ref name="cyclingweekly.com">[http://bit.ly/2UTdym9] Who is Pat McQuaid and why is he running our sport?, Cycling Weekly, March 21, 2012, Edward Pickering (and Lionel Birnie), visited Sept 14 2018</ref><ref name="PatMcQuaid CW"></ref>
Having lived in Ballygall for many years, Jim and Madge McQuaid moved to Bettyglen, [[Raheny]]. Jim McQuaid died at home on the 16th September 1991, survived by his wife, children, grandchildren, brother and sister. His funeral was held at Raheny's Church of Our Lady Mother of Divine Grace and he is buried in St Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton.<ref name="Obit"/>
Emerald Cycling Club promoted a Jim McQuaid Memorial road race in his memory, from at least 1996<ref name="Memorial 1996">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> to at least 2001.<ref name="Memorial 2001">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:People from Dungannon]]
[[Category:Irish male cyclists]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Dublin (city)]]
[[Category:Irish cycling administrators]]
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'''James K. McQuaid''' (born 1920) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[road racing cyclist]] and later cycling administrator, coach and team manager from [[Dungannon]], [[County Tyrone]], Northern Ireland, for most of his life based in [[Dublin]], Ireland.<ref name="PatMcQ interview"></ref> From a family that became prominent in Irish cycling, he raced competitively, co-founded a cycle racing club.<ref name="Emerald">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and served on the committee of the national cycling federation.
==Life==
McQuaid was born in 1920 in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone,<ref name="Ras Daly">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> with one elder brother, and a sister.<ref name="Obit">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> A Roman Catholic, he married a Protestant, and due to the atmosphere at the time in Northern Ireland they decided to move to Dublin in 1948,<ref name="Ascent">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> as Jim's elder brother Paddy had done a year earlier.<ref name="Ascent"/><ref name="PatMcQ interview"/> Jim set up a greengrocery, with a small bakery, in the small district of [[Ballygall]], between [[Glasnevin]] and [[Finglas]] in the northwestern Dublin suburbs.<ref name="PatMcQ interview"/> Jim and Madge McQuaid continued to live in Dublin, and had seven sons and three daughters.<ref name="PatMcQ interview"/>
===Cycling career===
McQuaid and his brother [[Paddy McQuaid|Paddy]] had already been racing in Northern Ireland, in both track and road disciplines, and continued in their new home, both seeking national and international competition.<ref name="Ras Daly"/> In 1949, Paddy was a key driver in the foundation of Ireland's new internationally recognised cycling federation, CRE, partly to ensure access to international competition, and Jim was also involved.<ref name="Ras Daly"/>
Jim and Paddy McQuaid founded a cycle racing club, Emerald Cycling Club (sometimes Emerald Cycle Racing Club), in late 1949. They kept it small and selective, aiming for high race performance;<ref name="Emerald"/> the club survived until the late 1990s, racing nationally and internationally.
====National competition====
McQuaid raced competitively from the 1940s to the early 1960s. He participated in National Athletics and Cycling Association,<ref name="NACA47">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Athletics Board and club races, initially racing for Harp Cycle Club,<ref name="Harp cite">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and later participated in events approved by the CRE, and raced under Emerald club colours. He won a range of national titles, at distances from 440 yards to 200 kilometres,<ref name="Olympic mgr"/> including the Grand Prix of Ireland six times between 1951 and 1961,<ref name="PatMcQ interview"/> and a number of annual club prizes, such as the Hercules Challenge Club of the [[Dublin Wheelers]].
====International competition====
McQuaid competed in the World Championships in six countries,<ref name="Olympic mgr"/> including each year from 1951 to 1954. He was also selected for the 1948 Olympic Games<ref name="Emerald"/> but internal disputes in Irish cycling and the position of the international governing body regarding these prevented his actually participating.
McQuaid was also selected, for example, to a joint team from Ireland (CRE) and Northern Ireland (NICF) in 1953, to compete in both road race and sprint competitions in Zurich.<ref name="Zurich 1953">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
He retired from competitive cycling in 1963.<ref name="Olympic mgr">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
====Sport administration and team management====
In 1958 McQuaid also became involved in the national administration of cycling, securing election as an ordinary committee member of the internationally-recognised cycling federation, the CRE. In 1959 and 1960 he was elected as Track Racing Secretary, and he later served again as a committee member. After a gap he ran for the post of International Secretary for 1974, serving for a year; running for 1974, he lost to the national executive's first female member, Elizabeth Corcoran, but he served one more term in that role, elected in November 1977.
McQuaid also managed teams representing Ireland for international events, including the Olympic Games (in Mexico in 1968)<ref name="Olympic mgr"/> and the Tour of Britain.<ref name="Officials 1976">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
===Commercial activities===
McQuaid founded McQuaid Cycles in 1974, and over time it had shops at at least four locations across Dublin (the family also had a wholesale bike import business);<ref name="Family closure">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> the original shop, in [[Ballygall]], between Glasnevin and Finglas, remains in business, as of 2019.<ref name="About McQ cycles"></ref>
==Personal life==
The McQuaids' children all became involved in Irish cycling affairs, all seven boys cycling competitively, and the three girls becoming involved in race promotion and marketing.<ref name="Obit"/> Six of the boys competed internationally,<ref name="Ras Daly"/> including at the Olympics, and the eldest, [[Pat McQuaid|Pat]], progressed to a short professional career, a longer career in coaching and national administration, and eventually headed the world governing body for cycling, the UCI, for two terms.<ref name="cyclingweekly.com">[http://bit.ly/2UTdym9] Who is Pat McQuaid and why is he running our sport?, Cycling Weekly, March 21, 2012, Edward Pickering (and Lionel Birnie), visited Sept 14 2018</ref><ref name="PatMcQuaid CW"></ref>
Having lived in Ballygall for many years, Jim and Madge McQuaid moved to Bettyglen, [[Raheny]]. Jim McQuaid died at home on the 16th September 1991, survived by his wife, children, grandchildren, brother and sister. His funeral was held at Raheny's Church of Our Lady Mother of Divine Grace and he is buried in St Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton.<ref name="Obit"/>
Emerald Cycling Club promoted a Jim McQuaid Memorial road race in his memory, from at least 1996<ref name="Memorial 1996">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> to at least 2001.<ref name="Memorial 2001">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:People from Dungannon]]
[[Category:Irish male cyclists]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Dublin (city)]]
[[Category:Irish cycling administrators]]
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