MacManus, Seumas, << muhk MAN uhs, shay muhs >> (1869?-1960), was an Irish author of stories, poems, memoirs, and plays. Like other writers of the late 1800’s, MacManus retold in prose many stories he had collected from the oral tradition in Ireland. Some of the stories were published in Through the Turf Smoke (1899). His first book of poetry was Shuilers from the Heathy Hills (1893). His plays include The Townland of Tamney (1904). MacManus’ best-known work is The Rocky Road to Dublin (1938), a particularly Irish kind of personal portrait of time and place that describes his childhood and youth.
MacManus was born in County Donegal. As a young man he worked as a shepherd, a farm hand, and a teacher. He moved to the United States about 1899.
