Popular Irish writer to perform in local Tipperary arts centre

Manchán Magan will perform in The Source Arts Centre, exploring the rising connection people are having with the spirit and the lore of the land of Ireland.

The performance will take place on Tuesday, December 3, at 8pm.

Tickets cost €18. 

Manchán Magan is a writer, traveller, and television presenter.

He grew up in Donnybrook, Dublin 4 and is the great grandnephew of Mícheál Seosamh Ó Rathaille (aka: The O'Rahilly).

He has made over 30 travel documentaries focusing on issues of world culture and globalization, 12 of them packaged under the Global Nomad series with his brother Ruán Magan.

He presented No Béarla, a documentary series about traveling around Ireland speaking only Irish.

He writes a travel column for the Irish Times and his show The Big Adventure, on RTÉ Radio One explores adventure holidays.

Rewilding the Mind: reconnecting to the spirit of the land is a 70-minute talk where Manchán Magan explores the rising connection people are having with the spirit and the lore of the land of Ireland.

Beginning with the creation myth and origin story that our ancestors have passed down to us, he examines the mythological and archaeological clues to how our forebears identified with both the physical realm and the magical realms that surround it.

He'll look at the raising awareness of the centrality of the goddess in all aspects of Irish culture, lore, and ritual, and how it can help to steer us towards a deeper connection with nature and landscape.

Ultimately, this talk is a celebration of the extraordinary heritage our ancestors have passed down to us and how it can inspire and empower us, guiding us in how to live, how to feel and how to relate to the wider world.

It also explores the wider resonances of Ireland’s heritage with Indigenous cultures and Vedic India.