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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