Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun)
WINNER THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025
$72.75
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
Summary
Meet the néaladóirí (cloud-watchers) and réadóirí (stargazers) from our past who, without the luxury of Met Éireann at their disposal, observed birds, trees, animals, as well as markers on land and sea for signs of weather change. The sheer richness and variety of terms they amassed reveal the closeness with which they observed the world around them. Swallows flying low foretold rain. The heron’s behaviour offered many hints: Aimsir chrua thirim nuair a bhíonn an corr éi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804583340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804583340 |
| Author: | Megan Luddy, Manchán Magan |
| Publisher: | Gill |
| Imprint: | Gill Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 918g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 206mm x 226mm |
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Megan Luddy
Manchán Magan was a writer and documentary-maker. His groundbreaking book Thirty-Two Words for Field led the way for the recent revival of the Irish language. He wrote occasionally for the Irish Times, reported on travel for various radio programmes, and presented dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ and the Travel Channel. Manchán lived in an oak wood, with bees, hens, and occasionally pigs, in a grass-roofed house near Lough Lene, Co Westmeath. He passed away in October 2025.
Megan Luddy is an award-winning illustrator and artist. A graduate of NCAD, where she was Design Student of the Year in 2022. This is her first book.
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