TRAVEL ARTICLES

For a FULL LIST OF MANCHÁN'S Irish Times Travel Articles click here.

THE COLUMN:

MAGAN’S WORLD – adventures of a travel addict.

every fortnight in Irish Times Saturday Magazine.

 (selected column pieces)

Travel and the environment

Travel Photography

Franticham & Secret map of Ireland

Language Barriors

Greenland

Travel Presents

Sabino Canyon, Tucson

Fictionalisation of Travel Literature

Migrants, Sonora Desert, Arizona


The Red Legs of Barbados
Dervla Murphy - my pin-up.

Canvassing for Obama in Santa Fe
Why I love the Congo.
Travel-bag treachery,  
Tuaregs,  
Missionaries in India,  
El Nariz del Diablo train,  
Chase in Fez,  
Gorale Culture, Poland, 
Intro column


Full-length Travel Articles, The Irish Times


Ethiopia Community Tourism, 7th Nov '09

Arizona & New Mexico roadtrip, 11 Oct '09

Lima, Peru, 29 Aug '09

St Mullins, Co Carlow, 25th April '09


Native American Pueblos, New Mexico

La Gomera

Driving the Camino, Northern Spain

Walking Safaris, Zambia

Colca Canyon Resort, Peru

 

Audio slide-show, New Mexico



OTHER ARTICLES

       
Guardian articles

Croagh Patrick: Up the Holy Mountain  July 31st 2009

Why is there a priest shortage in Ireland? Feb 28th 2008
Welcome to Ireland - don't stay long Oct 18th 2007
How do you say Padraig July 24th 2007
Cá bhfuil na Gaeilgeoirí Jan 5th 2007

LA Times article
Gaelic? What Gall Mon 17th March 2008


Washington Post

Finding authentic Ireland in Galway, June 28th 2009

 

Barbican Centre articles - Dance
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre Company - introduction, 2006
Fabulous Beast - Overview of the Midlands Trilogy, 2008



PROFILES of MANCHÁN



       


Back to Basics
by Róisín Ingle
Irish Times, 25 August 2007
Having a conversation with Manchán Magan is like conversing with several volumes of a disturbingly youthful-looking encyclopedia. A walking Wikipedia, with fewer errors, the man can talk about anything . . .
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Incredible journey of a soul survivor 
Sunday Independent, 13th August 2006 
by John Masterson. 
"
MANCHAN Magan is a delightful one-off. A shy man who is a great conversationalist. Almost a hermit, by choice."I burnt down my straw house and now I live . . . "
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Forever on the Road Less Travelled

by Eilis Ryan,
Westmeath Examiner,18 Sept 2008.
'Once upon a time, there lived a man in a house made entirely of straw bales . . . Manchan Magan, writer, documentary maker, and now novelist, was living a what sounds like a complete death-trap, although he denies that that’s  . . .' Read More

 

IN A WORLD GONE MAD

Sunday Tribune, 2 Sept 2007

Pioneering nomad or plain mad?  Whatever people think of the globetrotting gaeilgeoir Manchán Magan, Padraig Kenny find it hard not to be impressed by his fearlessness and self-possession . . . more


Mad for the Road

Clare People, 12 Nov 2007

From Urine-drinking to battling rabies, travel writer Mancháan Magan has lots of incredible stories to tell, writes Christine Breen . . . more

 



Manchán on The Panel, RTE comedy show, 8th Jan 2007


Globetrotter . . .
 
Westmeath Examiner 
Saturday June 24th 2006
"Documentary-maker Manchán Magan has travelled the world. But the place he calls 'home' is Castlepollard. He made the 'Global Nomad' travel series, and is currently busy answering questions about the book 'Angles and Rabies' which details his South American and Canadian travels, which has just been published. Deputy editor Eilís Ryan reports . . .  MORE



Radio Travel slots
Drivetime, RTE, Manchán talks to Mary Wilson about Tamil Nadu, Jordan, Ethiopia, Jordan, Mexico. March-September 2008

The Last Word, Today FM. 
Manchán talks to Matt Cooper about Morocco, Bolivia, Nudist resorts, pilgrimages, house exchanges. May 2006-Jan 2008

Manchán as reviewer on The View RTE 15 May 07

Manchán as reviewer on The View RTE 12 Dec 06

Manchán as reviewer on The View RTE 26 Sept  '06

Manchán as reviewer on The View RTE 23 May 2006

Manchán as reviewer on The View RTE Jan 2006

Manchán as reviewer on The View RTE Sept 2005


Down a long and winding road 
Liam Fay, Sunday Times, Febuary 2003
"Manchan Magan’s desire to escape Ireland and broaden himself took him all over the world. But it also led him into a career as TG4’s thoughtful travel presenter — not bad for someone who hated Gaelic,"  
writes Liam Fay . . .
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 Taking the road less travelled
Olivia Doyle, Irish Times, August 2002
"The programmes Manchán and Ruán Magan produce for TG4 are definitely not 'holiday shows'. They tell Olivia Kelly about their brotherly approach to life and their love of other cultures . . . MORE


Interview with Ruán Magan concerning Global Nomad television.

 

 


 
Manchán podcasts about his book Angels and Rabies for Backpacker.ie
Manchán discusses his India book 'Manchán's Travels' with Pat Lynch on Cover to Cover, Near FM

Scannánaíocht sa tSín le Manchán Magan, Bealtaine 2003

 


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