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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

📖 New Release: The Wind and the Hearth

Leitrim Books is pleased to announce the publication of The Wind and the Hearth: The Collected Works of Nora J. Murray. Continuing our dedication to the voices that have shaped the literary landscape of County Leitrim, this new volume restores a vivid, long-quiet writer to the modern reader. At the center of this release is her original 1918 poetry collection, A Wind Upon the Heath, returned to print at last and gathered together with her uncollected poems, essays, short stories, and a newly researched biographical introduction.

Born in Carrick-on-Shannon, Nora J. Murray was a schoolmistress and a sharp-eyed observer who captured the reality of early twentieth-century Ireland from the hearthside and rural boreens. Her writing moves beautifully from the lyrical, blue-hazed mountains of her poetry to the sharp, knowing humour of her prose, where she had the measure of the tramping man and the strong farmer alike. More than just a literary artifact, The Wind and the Hearth is a welcome seat by the fire with a generation that has passed, offering a true window into the soul of the West.

👤 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

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.

Theophilus O'Flynn

O’Flynn, a poet and storyteller, remembered today for dictating his repertoire of Gaelic lore in 1835, preserving a fragment of a culture on the brink of devastation by the Great Famine.

“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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