Walter Macken
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English Walter Macken (3 May 1915 – 22 April 1967;[1] Irish: Script error: No such module "Lang".), was born in Galway, Ireland. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays.
Biography
Walter Macken was originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc (where he met his wife, Peggy)[2] in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He also played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's The King of Friday's Men[3] and his own play Home Is the Hero. The success of his third book, Rain on the Wind (winner of the Literary Guild award in the USA), enabled him to focus his energies on writing. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaptation of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind.
In September 1966 he moved to the small Gaeltacht village of Menlo in County Galway. Many of Macken's works are rooted in the Galway area of Connemara.[4] He died suddenly at home on 22 April 1967 and was survived by his wife and two sons.[5] His son Ultan Macken is a well-known journalist in the print and broadcast media of Ireland, and wrote a biography of his father, Walter Macken: Dreams on Paper.[6]
List of works
Plays
- Mungo's Mansion (Macmillan, 1946)
- Vacant Possession (Macmillan, 1948)
- Home is the Hero (Macmillan, 1952)
- Twilight is the Warrior (Macmillan, 1956)
Novels
- Quench the Moon (Macmillan, 1948)
- I Am Alone (Macmillan, 1949)
- Rain on the Wind (London, MacMillan, 1950)
- The Bogman (MacMillan, 1952)
- Sunset on the Window Panes (Macmillan, 1954)
- Sullivan (Macmillan, 1957)
- Seek the Fair Land (MacMillan, 1959)
- The Silent People (MacMillan, 1962)
- The Scorching Wind (MacMillan, 1964)
- Brown Lord of the Mountain (Macmillan, 1966)
Two further novels, 'And then No More' (1946) and 'Cockles and Mustard' (1947) remain unpublished.
Novels for children
Macken wrote some 5 collections of short stories for children, and also:
- Island of the Great Yellow Ox (MacMillan, 1966)
- Flight of the Doves (MacMillan, 1963), which was adapted for the cinema.
Short story collections
- The Green Hills (MacMillan, 1956)
- God Made Sunday and other Stories (Macmillan, 1962)
- The Coll Doll and other Stories (Macmillan, 1969)
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- City of the Tribes (Brandon, 1997)
- The Grass of the People (Brandon, 1998)
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Filmography
- Flight of the Doves (1971)
- The Quare Fellow (1962)
- Home Is the Hero (1959)
References
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External links
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- Entry at Irish Writers Online
- Website for Walter Macken
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- 1915 births
- 1967 deaths
- Irish male stage actors
- Irish male dramatists and playwrights
- Male actors from Galway (city)
- Writers from County Galway
- 20th-century Irish novelists
- 20th-century Irish male writers
- 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Irish male actors
- Irish male novelists
- Irish historical novelists
- Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period