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Here, our students gain more than just a degree – they build connections, find purpose, and thrive – working in ways big and small to reshape the future. With your support, we can continue to invest in these future leaders and expand their ability to transform our world.
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At Carlow University, the next generation of ethical leaders is already in the making.
Here, our students gain more than just a degree – they build connections, find purpose, and thrive – working in ways big and small to reshape the future. With your support, we can continue to invest in these future leaders and expand their ability to transform our world.
How You Can SupportBRIAN LEYDEN’s books include The Home Place, Sweet Old World: New and Selected Stories and Summer of ’63. He co-wrote the feature film, Black Ice, which premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013 and received an IFTA Best Actress nomination. He is a recipient of a Norman Mailer Writers Colony Scholarship (USA) and many residencies within Ireland. Most recently he received an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary in Literature (2022). Also a Covid-19 Response Award (2020), Hawk’s Well Theatre: Come Together (Writers and Composers, 2020), Hawk’s Well Theatre: People’s Poem: (2020) SLR Film Project Award (2018) with Atlantic Light Productions for script development for Summer of ’63. Creative Ireland Award (2018) script commission for the “Famine Attic” Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. “Walking Birds’ Mountain” – Creative Ireland, Sligo and the Factory Theatre multi-media collaborative project (2018/2019). His new essay ‘The Heron and the Hare’ appears in Winter Papers 8, ed Kevin Barry & Olive Smith (Curlew Editions, 2022). He lives in Sligo.
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