Manchán Magan, writer and documentary maker, has died at the age of 55. Photograph: Maurice O'Brien
Writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55.
The former Irish Times columnist was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of prostate cancer, neuroendocrine. He spoke about his terminal condition in a radio interview last month, saying he hadn’t felt much despair or self pity.
His family confirmed he died in Dublin last night.
Mr Magan, a Dublin native, spent summers of his youth in the west Kerry Gaeltacht, nurtured by his “terrier-like” grandmother, a veteran republican who he said viewed him as “another foot soldier in this cultural war”.
For the last quarter century he liv
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