Manchán Magan is an Irish writer, traveller, author, and television programme maker.
He writes regularly for The Irish Times[3] and presents the podcast/radio show 'The Almanac of Ireland', on RTÉ Radio 1[4] He has written three books in Irish, Baba-ji agus TnaG, Manchán ar Seachrán and Bí i nGrá.
[6][7] In 2021 he published the children's book Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words for Nature with illustrations by Steve Doogan.
[10] Magan was brought up in Donnybrook, Dublin, he went to Mount Anville Montessori School before attending Gonzaga College in Ranelagh (he also spent one year in Colaiste Rhinne), before going to University College Dublin to study Irish and History.
[11] Magan's family background was nationalist and closely associated with the foundation of the Irish State in that he is the grandson of Sheila Humphreys and great-grandnephew of The O'Rahilly.