Listen to the Land Speak

By Machán Magan. Published by Gill. 

Hardcover, 386 pages, Prose w/ B&W Illustrations, 2022

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land.

They used this connection to the cycles of the natural world – from which we are increasingly dissociated – as an animating force in their lives.

In this illuminating new book, Manchán Magan sets out on a journey, through bogs, across rivers and over mountains, to trace these ancestor’s footsteps. He uncovers the ancient myths that have shaped our national identity and are embedded in the strata of land that have

endured through millennia – from ice ages through to famines and floods.

See the world in a new light in this magical exploration into the life-sustaining wisdom of what lies beneath us.

"Hugely informative and entertaining... [His] focus [is] on the wealth of beauty within the Irish language and how it connects us to place, spirituality, nature and each other" – The Irish Times

"A rallying cry for a new way of being for the people on this island" – Irish Examiner