Neil Jordan’s new science fiction novel is set in Cork's Beara

The Beara Peninsula is the setting for a new book by Oscar-winning Irish film director Neil Jordan.

Mr Jordan, who has had a house near Castletownbere for many years, said the new novel is a science-fiction book based 100 years into the future and 200 years in the past.

It will be called The Library of Traumatic Memory, he revealed.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Arena programme, Mr Jordan, the award-winning director of The Crying Game, The End of the Affair, and Interview with a Vampire, has had a long-running affection for the West Cork peninsula. He filmed Ondine, starring Colin Farrell, and Byzantium, starring Saoirse Ronan, on location in Beara.

“I have just finished a new novel, a science fiction novel actually. “It’s about a medical corporation who is taking over the Beara peninsula, where every inhabitant of the peninsula is undergoing various medical tests, various procedures and various solutions, to baldness, and to skin wrinkling and heart disease … and all that kind of stuff. So, it’s kind of crazy and rather wonderful. I really enjoyed doing it actually.”

He said the book will be published next year.