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Menu Sections. Lauren Harte Twitter Email. Enniskillen actor and writer Ciaran McMenamin is celebrating a film deal for his newly published second novel, The Sunken Road, set in the First World War and during the partition of Ireland. T he Sunken Road, which was published this week by Harvill Secker, is a story of love, loyalty and obsession.

Events take place along the Western Front in the Great War and on the hills and rivers of Fermanagh four years later, as the War of Independence ignites along the border newly laid down by Partition — the centenary of which takes place this year.

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Let's begin. Also, he warns me that the story gets very dark in the last third I've read, voraciously, the first two thirds when we meet, and can't wait to find out after the drug deal point I've left it on and confirms that Vinny's frightening encounter with two drunk loyalist "lunatics", at the beginning of the novel, is based on a real life experience from his teens.

All that bigotry and hatred gone in an instant in a car crash. I wrote a short story based on it, and eventually developed it into the novel. I never meant for it to be a film but got talked into it by a director I know, Kieron J Walsh. We're writing the script over the summer. He has a few well-known actors in mind for the older characters in the film, including Vinny's dry, font-of-wisdom father, but needs to find a young Northern Irish actor to play the year-old Vinny.

In the meantime, he's working on a second book, a historical novel he's a history buff , set in Ireland and France in the s. But I love acting too, so never say never. That would be stupid. Enniskillen actor Ciaran McMenamin talks 'drugs and the dance scene' in his debut novel. These are exciting times for Enniskillen actor Ciaran McMenamin, with his first book out and getting married this month.

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