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Celebrating the Literary Voices of County Leitrim

Discover authors, their stories, and the works inspired by this beautiful county.

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☘️ Leitrim’s Literary Legacy

This site is a space to explore the lives and works of authors from County Leitrim, and those who have written about it. Together, their writings offer a rich record of Leitrim’s people, places, and past — and help keep its stories alive. You’ll find author profiles, book lists, and links to where you can read or purchase their work. I’m also working to bring hard-to-find titles back into circulation and to help contemporary authors reach new readers. Whether you’re here to rediscover a forgotten voice or find someone new, céad míle fáilte.

📰 New & Noteworthy

🗺️ Introducing the Leitrim Literary Map

Leitrim Books is delighted to announce a new interactive addition to our website: the Leitrim Literary Map. Designed to celebrate the deep bond between County Leitrim’s writers and the landscapes that shaped them, this interactive map allows visitors to discover the county’s literary heritage geographically across its historic civil parishes and townlands.

Site visitors can explore the map through three distinct basemap layers—Street, Topography, and Satellite imagery. Selecting a location reveals the historic statutory boundaries and townland outlines of where the authors were born or lived, complete with biographical notes, local placenames in both English and Irish, and direct links to their author profiles.

This feature is seamlessly integrated across the website. When browsing any writer’s profile in our Authors section, you will now find a dedicated location pin button alongside their birthplace. Clicking this pin opens the Literary Map, automatically focusing and highlighting that author’s townland outline. Whether following the traces of a beloved writer or discovering local storytellers from parish to parish, we invite you to explore Leitrim from a fresh perspective.

[Explore the Leitrim Literary Map here]

👤 Recently Added Authors

Our author list is always growing! Here are the three most recent additions connected to the county. Discover their stories and their work:

Spotlight on Authors

Rev. Anthony M. Canning

Rev. Canning was a Pallottine priest, historian, and educator who chronicled the Irish Catholic diaspora in South America and the history of the Irish Pallottine Province.

Black and white portrait photo of author Michael J. MacManus looking at the viewer, wearing a collared shirt and round-rimmed glasses.

Michael J. MacManus

MacManus was an Irish journalist, author, and literary editor of The Irish Press, known for his support of emerging writers and his contributions to Irish literature.

Ronan McGreevy

Ronan McGreevy is a journalist, author, and documentary presenter from Carrick-on-Shannon whose work spans modern Irish history, political violence, and national remembrance.

“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.”
— John McGahern

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Start exploring the stories of Leitrim — through the voices of its writers and those who’ve written it into memory.

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