Folklore Fragments Podcast - Ep 28: Land and Language with Manchán Magan

My guest for this edition of Bluiríní Béaloidis is writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan, whose recent book '32 Words For Field' is a meditation on old Irish words and the nuances of a way of life that is vanishing with them. The book considers the 'richness of a language closely tied to the natural landscape' which 'offered our ancestors a more magical way of seeing the world'. It considers the 'sublime beauty and profound oddness of the ancient tongue that has been spoken on this island for over 2,000 years'. In this discussion, we consider how language and tradition binds us to the landscape, expolore the role of tradition in modernity and speculate on the ancient connections between Ireland and India.
Manchán's book '32 Words For Field' has been nominated for numerous awards, and (as of December 2020) is already in its fourth printing.

Copies can be purchased from all good independent book shops: http://www.easons.com/thirty-two-word...

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