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Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America and two novels.
 

He writes occasionally for The Irish Times on culture & travel, presents the RTÉ podcast The Almanac of Ireland, and is author of the award-winning, best-selling Thirty-Two Words for Field (Gill, 2000), and Listen to the Land Speak (Gill, 2022). His illustrated books include  Tree Dogs, Banshees Fingers and other Irish Words for Nature. (Gill, 2021) and Wolf-men and Water Hounds (Gill, 2023).

He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ  & Travel Channel. He's on the board of Hometree, a native woodland & land regeneration charity, and Common Knowledge, a non-profit social enterprise teaching skills for a sustainable homelife. He's an ambassador for The Rivers Trust, and has lived for the last quarter century in an oak wood, with bees, hens, and occasionally pigs, in a grass-roofed house near Lough Lene, Co Westmeath.

Wolf-men and

Water Hounds

Listen to the Land Speak

Nasty Words for People

Rewilding the Mind tour - Nov & Dec 2024

(UK tour  of Arán & Im  Oct 2024 - dates here)

 

9th Nov                  Patrick's Hall, Delvin, Co Westmeath Tcks: Delvin Post Office or Michael at 0872879581

11th Nov             Everyman Theatre, Cork  (some tickets left)

13th Nov             Fumbally, Dublin (sold out)

14th Nov             Fumbally, Dublin (sold out)

15th Nov             Fumbally, Dublin (sold out)

16th Nov             The Dock (sold-out)

17th Nov             Siamsa Tíre, Tralee (sold out)

19th Nov             Mermaid, Bray (sold out)                           

20th Nov             Swift Theatre, Trim (selling fast)

22nd Nov            Linenhall, castlebar, 8pm (sold-out)

24th Nov            Hawkswell, Sligo (almost sold-out)

26th Nov             Dunamaise, Portlaoise (last tickets)

28th Nov             Glór, Ennis (selling fast)

29th Nov             An Táin,  Dundalk

30th Nov             Ramore Theatre, Virginia (selling fast)

3rd Dec               The Source, Tipperary (selling fast)

5th Dec               Backstage, Longford (selling fast)

6th Dec               Riverbank, Newbridge

7th Dec               Heaney HomePlace (sold out)

10th Dec             Pavillion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire (sold out)

12-13th Dec          Mick Lally Theatre, Galway (sold-out)

 

 

32 Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers & Other Words for Nature

Scoil Scairte: Irish course by The Trailblazery & Manchán

Focail na mBan: Women's Words by Manchán & 29 artists

Rewilding the Mind
lecture tour

Brehon and Brahmins

New book

Nov 2024