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Brian Leyden
Brian Leyden (born 1960) 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 Home Place'' by Brian Leyden - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482336057〕 the short story collection ''Departures'',〔''Departures'' by Brian Leyden - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0863221548〕 and the novel ''Death and Plenty''.〔''Death and Plenty'' by Brian Leyden - http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K7TQV6〕 He won the RTÉ Radio 1 Francis MacManus Award in 1988 for ''The Last Mining Village''. He has written extensively about his home area for RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany and the Doc on One: ''No Meadows in Manhattan'',〔''No Meadows in Manhattan'' RTÉ recording - http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/no-meadows-in-manhattan-radio-documentary.html〕 ''Even the Walls Were Sweatin’'' , ''The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon''〔''The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon'' RTÉ recording - http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/carrickgaiety.html〕 and '' Practical Rooms and Pre-Fabs''. He co-wrote the original screenplay for the feature film ''Black Ice'',〔''Black Ice'' on IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2606788/〕 which premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013.〔''Black Ice'' Jameson Dublin International Film Festival - http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4286267&tpl=archnews&force=1〕
==Early and Working Life==
Brian Leyden grew up in the coal mining valley of Arigna, a place and a way of life memorialised in his writing.
He was educated in Drumshanbo Vocational School (1978) and graduated from Sligo RTC with a Diploma in Fine Art (1983).
Since working his way through college with the Sligo VEC & Arts Council of Ireland funded ''Murals in Schools Scheme'', he has worked continuously in the arts, including the positions of Writer in Residence with Leitrim and Sligo Libraries, mentoring for the NUI Galway BA in Creative Writing program, and the Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA MFA Irish Residential program.〔Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA. USA Creative Writing Resident - http://www.carlow.edu/Creative_Writing_Residencies_.aspx〕 Reading tours include Ireland and its Diaspora Writers & Musician’s Tour of Germany (1996), Newport Festival Rhode Island, USA, and The Irish Writers' Centre ''Peregrine Readings'' (2010).〔Brian Leyden at the Irish Writers' Centre ''Peregrine Readings'' - http://www.writerscentre.ie/html/events/Past%20Peregrine%20Readings/peregrinekilroyand%20leyden.html〕 His libretto for the short opera Humpty Dumpty by Ian Wilson 〔Humpty Dumpty by Ian Wilson with text by Brian Leyden - http://www.ianwilson.org.uk/compositions_vocal_choral.php〕 premiered at the Lancaster International Concert Series at Lancaster University, England in 2010.
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