Walter Macken
Walter Macken (3 May 1915 - 22 April 1967) (Irish Uaitéar Ó Maicín), was born in Galway, Ireland. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's The King of Friday's Men and his own play Home Is the Hero. 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.
His son Ultan Macken is a well-known journalist in the print and broadcast media of Ireland.
List of works
Plays
- Mungo's Mansion (1946)
- Home is the Hero (1952)
Novels
- Rain on the Wind (London, MacMillan, 1950)
- The Bogman (MacMillan, 1952)
- Seek the Fair Land (MacMillan,1959)
- The Silent People (MacMillan, 1962)
- The Scorching Wind (MacMillan, 1964)
- Quench the Moon
- Brown Lord of the Mountain
- Sullivan
- Sunset on the Window Panes
Novels for children
- Island of the Great Yellow Ox (MacMillan, 1966)
- Flight of the Doves (MacMillan, 1963), which was adapted for the cinema.
Other works
- I am Alone
- The Green Hills (stories)
- The Coll Doll and other Stories (which includes thirteen stories from The Green Hills)
- God Made Sunday and other Stories
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