Manchan Magan
Manchán Magan was a writer, presenter and travel documentary maker with a life’s mission to steer people back to nature through the old stories preserved in Irish culture and heritage. He was spurred by the belief that ‘everything that exists has a flame inside of it’, and is remembered for his considered, erudite, and enchanted way of looking at the world. He is known as a ‘gatherer of light’.
Manchán published numerous travel books, wrote award-winning plays that have been performed internationally, and produced a theatrical installation, Gaeilge Tamgagotchi at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. He also presented the first ever IMAX documentary on Ireland, directed by MacGillivray Freeman films and narrated by Liam Neeson. It launched in Spring 2022 and then was rolled- out round the world through 2023 and 2024.
His bestselling book, Thirty Two Words for Field, on the lost words of the Irish landscape, was published in the UK in 2024.
