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Liam Mac Con Iomaire

Liam Mac Con Iomaire

Irish journalist (1937–2019)

Liam Mac Con Iomaire (born 1937, Casla, County Galway – died 2019) 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.[1] He was the father of musician, Colm Mac Con Iomaire.[2][3]

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).[4]

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

References

  1. [1]
    "PlayographyIreland – Liam Mac Con Iomaire". Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Death of writer, broadcaster Liam Mac Con Iomaire". 6 May 2019 – via www.rte.ie. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. [3]
    "Liam Mac Con Iomaire – duine de mhórGhaeil na hÉireann agus fear uasal ar shlí na fírinne". Tuairisc.ie.
  4. [4]
    "Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners".


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