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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 lives in an oak wood, with bees and hens, in a grass-roofed house near Lough Lene, Co Westmeath.
Wolf-men and
Water Hounds
Listen to the Land Speak
Nasty Words for People
West Coast North American tour - Autumn 2023
(UK tour in Autumn 2024)
28th Sept: Broadwater Theatre, Los Angeles (sold-out)
30th Sept: Broadwater Theatre Complex, LA
1st Oct: Irish Cultural Centre, Phoenix, Arizona
6th Oct: United Irish Cultural Centre, San Francisco (sold-out)
7th Oct: United irish Cultural Centre, San Fran (Sold-out)
10th Oct: University of Montana, Missoula
14th Oct: Wheatgrass Books, Livingston, Montana
18th Oct: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum (sold-out)
20th Oct: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
23rd Oct: Corrib Theatre & Historic Alberta Hse Portland (Sold-out,)
26th Oct: The Cultch Historic Theatre, Vancouver (sold out)
32 Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers & Other Words for Nature
Calendar 2024 - Antic Ham & Irish Design Shop