"A person who wants to write things will have to move about among the people he left behind"
(W. Macken, Quench the Moon, Chapter 5)

Welcome to the official Walter Macken's Web site.

This site is devoted to promote Walter Macken's writings and an awareness of his significance in Irish literature.

Download and listen to Walter Macken's voice:

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

(These mp3 files are excerpts from "Mungo's Mansion" the first play Walter Macken wrote. )

NEWS!

Podcast: "A Writer's Legacy: Walter Macken"
Listen to an interview (podcast) to Father Walter Macken, Jr., son of the late Irish novelist Walter Macken, available at The Writers Show. Featuring Guest Hosts Mick Halpin and Rafael Guzmán.
December 17th, 2007

Inauguration of a brass plaque to Louis MacNeice and Walter Macken
April 27th, 2007

On April 27th, in Galway, there was an inauguration of a brass plaque both to Louis MacNeice an Northern poet with Galway connections whose hundredth anniversary occurs this year. His plaque has a poem he wrote in September 1939, when the 2 nd World War broke out. He was looking over Galway Bay and using about how ordinary things looked, "when war came down upon us". about Galway Bay.

Another brass plaque was unveiled at the same time by Fr. Walter. This was an extract from "Rain on the Wind" that describes the sunset over the Claddagh basin, with the rose colour from the retiring sun reflected in the wings of the seagulls making them look like tropical birds.

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