2,500 people gathered at the Hill of Uisneach in Co Westmeath for Manchán Magan’s month’s memorial and the scattering of his ashes. Video: Dara Mac Dónaill
One of the late Manchán Magan’s books which composed his remarkable later output was Ninety-Nine Words for Rain and One for Sun.
At the Hill of Uisneach in Co Westmeath on Saturday, many of those rain-themed words he wrote of came to visit the crowd of some 2,500 people assembled for his month’s memorial and scattering of his ashes.
There was sleeting rain, sheeting rain, and rain turned to ice that fell in the form of furious hailstones.
It was t
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