Walter Macken

Walter Macken (born May 3, 1915 in Galway , † April 22, 1967 there ) was an Irish author and actor.

Life

He attended the Patrician Brothers School in his hometown. He has worked as a theater manager at the Galway Gaelic Theater and the Dublin Abbey Theater .

Macken wrote plays, short stories, children's books and novels. He has also worked as an actor in London and New York . He also appeared as a film actor.

Works

• Mungo's Mansion , 1946
• Vacant Possession , 1948
• Quench the Moon , 1948
• I Am Alone , 1949
• Rain on the Wind , 1950
• The Bogman , 1952
• Home Is the Hero , 1953
• Sunset on the Window-Panes , 1954
• Twilight of a Warrior , 1956
• The Green Hills and Other Stories , 1956
• Sullivan , 1957
• Seek the Fair Land , 1959
• The Silent People , 1962
• God Made Sunday and Other Stories , 1962
• The Scorching Wind , 1964
• Island of the Great Yellow Ox , 1966 ( On the trail of the golden ox , 1968)
• Brown Lord of the Mountain , 1967
• The Flight of the Doves , 1968 (German thirty minutes ahead , 1969; Finn's decision , 1992)
• The Coll Doll and Other Stories , 1969

literature

• Short biography Walter Macken in explorations - 30 Irish storytellers , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-353-00123-9 , page 347.
• Ultan Macken: Walter Macken. Dreams on Paper . Mercier Press 2010.