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He has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America and two novels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>He writes occasionally for\u00a0<em><span>The Irish Times\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on culture &amp; travel, presents the RT\u00c9 podcast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchan.com\/radio\">The Almanac of Ireland<\/a>, and is author of the award-winning, best-selling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchan.com\/32-words-for-field\">Thirty-Two Words For Field<\/a>, and his new illustrated book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchan.com\/treedogs--banshee-fingers\">Tree Dogs, Banshees Fingers and other Irish Words for Nature<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>He has made dozens of documentaries\u00a0on issues of world culture for TG4, RT\u00c9 &amp; Travel Channel. He lives in an oak wood, with bees and hens, in a grass-roofed house near Lough Lene, Co. Westmeath.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Manch\u00e1n will work across the various sections of Meath County Council contributing to the design of projects supported by the archives, arts, heritage, Irish language and library services. He will also research aspects of Holy Wells and the Irish language with a view to publishing an article in a forthcoming issue of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society Journal &#8211; R\u00edocht na M\u00eddhe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26217,"template":"","class_list":["post-26216","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meath County Council Writer - in - Residence - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manch\u00e1n Magan\u00a0is a writer and documentary-maker.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/meath-county-council-writer-in-residence-5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meath County Council Writer - in - Residence - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manch\u00e1n Magan\u00a0is a writer and documentary-maker. 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