Seeing What's Hidden

AS TRANSCENDENT AND MIRACULOUS AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, THE FINAL BOOK IN THE LANDMARK TRILOGY

‘Again and again Manchán helps me remember how much of the past is present today if we learn – and choose – to notice’ MERLIN SHELDRAKE

‘Here in this book, although we see, feel and sense Manchán through his unfinished, yet wholly powerful meditations … never more than now have we been invited into these musings; these questions; these observations. Never more than now, in this haunting, vital book, have we been asked to come and take our place around the fire.’ KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH

In his final book, Manchán Magan implores us – even dares us – to move from the limited rational world to a more expansive spiritual one. To become re-enchanted once again. To understand that there are more ways of seeing, more ways of knowing and to uncover the interconnectedness between all things.

Manchán explores how ancient Irish culture retains deep resonances with other indigenous worldviews – a way of perceiving land, language, nature and spirit as inseparable. Drawing on mythology, early law, folklore and placenames, Manchán traces how Ireland’s forests, sacred trees and landscapes shaped the Irish psyche with such a resilience that many beliefs and customs endure to this day. In Seeing What’s Hidden, Manchán implores us to look again so that we too might rediscover our cultural inheritance and chart our course forward from here.

Tributes to Manchán Magan

‘His legacy will live on in the inquisitive and inspiring mindset of the Irish and in those who seek a deeper and more fulfilled life’ Kneecap

‘In a world full of bullsh*t, he’s a lesson to us all of a life well lived’ Brendan O’Connor

‘Manchán was many things – joyous, gifted, deeply imaginative and, perhaps above all, a magical inspiration’ Theo Dorgan

‘There was a gentleness to Manchán. He was an otherworldly guy.’ Liam Ó Maonlaí

‘Manchán truly lived an inspirational life and helped so many people to find a deeper meaning in their lives’ President Michael D. Higgins

As transcendent and miraculous as you would expect, the final book in the landmark trilogy.