Choctaw artist Waylon Gary White Deer is making waves in Donegal

Choctaw artist Waylon Gary White Deer has settled so well in Ireland that he’s appeared in Fair City and even counted the late Martin McGuinness among his friends, writes Aisling Meath. 

WAYLON Gary White Deer will always be welcome in Ireland,” wrote the late Martin McGuinness in his introduction to the 2012 book Touched By Thunder, a memoir by the artist from the Choctaw nation tribe, who now calls Ireland home.

“I live in the Donegal Gaeltacht, a place where the native community speak a language among themselves,” says White Deer.