Liam Mac Con Iomaire Explained

Liam Mac Con Iomaire (1937, Casla, County Galway – 5 May 2019)^[1] was a highly respected Irish writer, journalist and broadcaster.

He was a newsreader on RTÉ. He was author of a number of books and some translations, mainly concerning Connemara, as well as landmark Irish language biographies of Breandán Ó hEithir and Seosamh Ó hÉanaí.^[2] He was the father of musician, Colm Mac Con Iomaire.^{[3] [4]}

Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson won the 2016 Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work for Graveyard Clay / Cré na Cille: A Narrative in Ten Interludes, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Yale University Press, 2016).^[5]

Bibliography

• Ireland of the Proverb (with Bill Doyle), Rinehart Publishers, 1995.
• Conamara:The Unknown Country (with Bob Quinn), Chló Iar-Chonnacht, 1997.
• Breandán Ó hEithir: Iomramh Aonair, Chló Iar-Chonnacht, 2000.
• Controller's Report Yearbook 2002, Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, 2003.
• Seosamh Ó hÉanaí: Nár fhagha mé bás choíche, Chló Iar-Chonnacht, 2007.
• Graveyard Clay (with Tim Robinson), Yale University Press, 2015. (Translated from the original Máirtín Ó Cadhain novel Cré na Cille).

See also

• Mac Con Iomaire, the Gaelic-Irish surname

External links

• Obituary, irishtimes.com; accessed 22 July 2020.
• Obituary, rte.ie; accessed 22 July 2020.
• Notice of death of Liam Mac Con Iomaire

accessed 22 July 2020.

• Liam Mac Con Iomaire profile, beo.ie; accessed 22 July 2020.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 6 May 2019 . Writer, broadcaster and academic Liam Mac Con Iomaire dies . 2024-05-19 . The Irish Times . en.
2. Web site: PlayographyIreland – Liam Mac Con Iomaire. 24 May 2014.
3. Death of writer, broadcaster Liam Mac Con Iomaire. 6 May 2019. www.rte.ie.
4. Web site: Liam Mac Con Iomaire – duine de mhórGhaeil na hÉireann agus fear uasal ar shlí na fírinne. Tuairisc.ie.
5. Web site: Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners.