Manchán Magan is a writer, traveller and television maker. He has made over 30 travel documentaries

Travel documentary

A travel documentary is a documentary film or television program that describes travel in general or tourist attractions in a non-commercial way....

 focusing on issues of world cultures

World cultures

World Cultures is an electronic and paper peer-reviewed academic journal of cross-cultural studies. It was founded in 1985 by Douglas R. White, who was the editor in chief until 1990, when Greg Truex took over, followed by J. Patrick Gray and Peter Peregrine . Gray remains the current editor. The...

 and globalization

Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...

, 12 of them packaged under the Global Nomad

Global nomad

The term Global Nomad can mean:*People with an international lifestyle, of multi-national background or living/working in more than one country:*People who grew up in a country other than their own *Existential migration...

 series with his brother Ruán Magan

Ruán Magan

Ruán Magan is a director of documentaries and drama-documentaries based in Ireland, but working internationally. Born in Dublin in 1968, he was educated in Gonzaga College and University College Dublin before embarking on a career in feature films in 1989...

. He presented No Béarla

No Béarla

No Béarla is a four-part documentary style programme broadcast on Irish language television channel TG4 and produced by Dearg Films RTÉ/TG4. It follows presenter Manchán Magan as he journeys throughout Ireland attempting to show that Irish is spoken only by a minority of the population...

, a documentary series about traveling around Ireland speaking only Irish

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

. He writes a travel column for The Irish Times

The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...

and his show The Big Adventure, on RTÉ Radio One explores adventure holidays. He has written two books in Irish, Baba-ji agus TnaG (Coiscéim 2005) and Manchán ar Seachrán (Coiscéím 1998), and his English travel books include Angels & Rabies: a journey through the Americas (Brandon, 2006), Manchán's Travels: a journey through India (Brandon, 2007) and Truck Fever: a journey through Africa (Brandon, 2008).

Manchán's family background was uncompromisingly nationalist and closely associated with the foundation of the Irish State. He has explored these connections in various documentaries for TG4

TG4

TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....

 and RTÉ. He is the grandson of Sighle Humphreys

Sheila Humphreys

Sheila Humphreys, sometimes known as Sighle Humphreys, was an Irish political activist and member of Cumann na mBan.-Background:...

 and great-grandnephew of The O'Rahilly

The O'Rahilly

Michael Joseph O'Rahilly , self-described as The O'Rahilly was an Irish republican who took part in the Easter Rising, during which he was killed in the fighting.-Early life:...

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External links

• Official website