WALTER MACKEN, the Galway author of Rain On The Wind, The Silent People, and The Scorching Wind, fell in love with Connemara as a child, and that fascination will be explored in a new show.
The novelist’s son, Ultan Macken, will present his new one man show, Walter Macken and Connemara, at The Courthouse, Oughterard, tomorrow, on Friday October 15, and Saturday 16, at 8pm, as part of the Galway Fringe Festival 2021.
Walter Macken first visited Connemara as a schoolboy in 1934, on a visit to Cleggan. In the two hour show, Ultan will illustrate how important Connemara, and indeed Oughterard, were to his father’s writing, showing how the landscape formed important backdrops to his stories.
Walter Macken lived in Oughterard from 1951 to 1966, and he said this helped him to know and understand the people and the area better. "In a hundred years time, when people read my books,” he said, “they will say, 'So that's how people lived,’”
Admission is €10/8. See https://www.galwayfringe.ie.
