Barbara Leahy

Genres: Cork | Debut | Fiction | Historical Fiction | Irish Writing | Novel
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Barbara Leahy is from Cork. She was a winner of the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair in 2023. Her short stories have won numerous awards, appeared in the Bridport Prize Anthology, the Bristol Prize anthology, and been broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1. Rembrandt’s Promise is her first novel and it was published by Eriu, an imprint of Bonnier, in March 2025.

 

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