Brinsley MacNamara was born on September 6, 1890 in Devlin, County Westmeath, and died on February 4, 1963 in Dublin. MacNamara's best known work is The Valley of the Squinting Windows.
Book Review:Brinsley MacNamara`s powerful study of a rural community, which established him as one of the great Irish novelists, still haunts the mind and the imagination.