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    This year marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Ireland’s great road racing champion Shay Elliott, who died in mysterious circumstances at the tragically early age of 36. He was one of the very first English speaking cyclists who made a serious impact in the professional peloton, and his exploits have never been fully appreciated, either in the traditional heartland of cycling or in his own country. This is the picture section from a much bigger book.

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    This year marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Ireland’s great road racing champion Shay Elliott, who died in mysterious circumstances at the tragically early age of 36. He was one of the very first English speaking cyclists who made a serious impact in the professional peloton, and his exploits have never been fully appreciated, either in the traditional heartland of cycling or in his own country. This is the picture section from a much bigger book.

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    Shay Elliott: The Life and Death of Ireland's First Yellow Jersey

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    This year marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Ireland’s great road racing champion Shay Elliott, who died in mysterious circumstances at the tragically early age of 36. He was one of the very first English speaking cyclists who made a serious impact in the professional peloton, and his exploits have never been fully appreciated, either in the traditional heartland of cycling or in his own country. This is the picture section from a much bigger book.

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    Cycling Weekly

    Shay with his father in their house in Rathfarnham

    After winning a race in the early 1950s

    Dublin Wheelers

    Shay with the Dublin Wheelers, early 1950s

    Dublin Wheelers

    Shay winning a stage of the C.R.E. Tour of Ireland

    Route de France, 1955, in the leaders jersey

    1955 Best amateur rider in France: postcard

    Tour of Lombardy 1958

    An exhausted Shay (date unknown)

    ParisRoubaix 1959

    Roger St Pierre

    Isle of Man 1959, with Brian Robinson

    A guest of the Irish Club, Paris

    Shay and Marguerite, Wedding Day

    Tour de France 1961

    Roger St Pierre

    Picking up a dropped musette

    Roger St Pierre

    Offside/LEquipe

    World Road Race Championship podium, 1962

    A signed photograph sent by Shay to his friend John Cleary

    Roger St Pierre

    Tour de France 1963: the winning break: with Stablinski and Van Aerde on the road to Roubaix

    PhotosportInternational

    With Tom Simpson in the World Road Race Championship 1963

    Offside/LEquipe

    The first Irish yellow jersey

    Shay, Stablinski and Anquetil the morning after

    PhotosportInternational

    Alan Ramsbottom, Shay and Tom Simpson; Grand Prix Corona, Crystal Palace, 1964

    Chasing Stablinski, ParisLuxembourg, 1965

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