Michael Viney: In Listen to the Land Speak, Manchán Magan aims to ‘send shards of light’ to illuminate the landscape and our history in it
The townland’s crowded pre-Famine life has left stony footprints of cabins embedded in rushes on the hillside. Walking the land with Prof Frank Mitchell, I learned to see Neolithic walls and scattered fulacht fiadh, cooking pits of the Bronze Age.
I have wondered what they thought about the natural world, beyond a rough place to live in, use and survive. Magan’s aim, pursued with a personal passion and deep research, is “to send shards of light across the landscape, illuminating certain features and patterns, as well as old beliefs and customs that are still in people’s memories today and are encoded in the lore and in the environment”.
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