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32 Words for Field

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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 las 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 (tickets Delvin PO)

11th Nov            Everyman Theatre, Cork

13-15th Nov       Fumbally, Dublin (14/15th sold out)

16th Nov             The Dock (sold-out)

17th Nov             Siamsa Tíre, Tralee

19th Nov             Mermaid, Bray                            

20th Nov             Swift Theatre, Trim

22nd Nov            Linenhall, castlebar, 8pm

24th Nov             Hawkswell, Sligo

26th Nov             Dunamaise, Portlaoise

28th Nov             Glór, Ennis

29th Nov             An Táin,  Dundalk

30th Nov             Ramore Theatre, Virginia

3rd Dec               The Source, Tipperary

5th Dec               Backstage, Longford

6th Dec               Riverbank, Newbridge

7th Dec               Heaney HomePlace (sold out)

10th Dec             Pavillion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

12-13th Dec        Mick Lally Theatre, Galway (13th 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

Arán & Im

UK Tour

Oct 2024