Brian Leyden

Brian Leyden is an Irish writer from Arigna, County Roscommon and currently living in County Sligo. He has published the best selling memoir The Home Place, the short story collection Departures, and the novel Death and Plenty. He won the RT RadioFrancis MacManus Award in 1988 for The Last Mining Village. He has written extensively about his home area for RTs Sunday Miscellany and the Doc on One No Meadows in Manhattan, Even the Walls Were Sweatin , The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in CarrickonShannon and Practical Rooms and PreFabs. He cowrote the original screenplay for the feature film Black Ice, which premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013.

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