The Irish Literary Times

Neil Jordan was born in County Sligo, Ireland in 1950. He is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Crying Game” and the writer/director of a number of feature films, as well as the 2011 series “The Borgias”. What’s your earliest memory? Sitting in this little garden in Rosses Point in Sligo. There was a seascape outside, a little island called Coney Island. I somehow remember being in this garden, looking at it, eating a Goldgrain biscuit. Who are your heroes? James Joyce, for the completeness of the imaginary life’s work,