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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