Liam Mac Con Iomaire

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 Univ. 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. "PlayographyIreland - Liam Mac Con Iomaire". Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  2. "Death of writer, broadcaster Liam Mac Con Iomaire". 6 May 2019 – via www.rte.ie. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Liam Mac Con Iomaire – duine de mhórGhaeil na hÉireann agus fear uasal ar shlí na fírinne". Tuairisc.ie.
  4. https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners/Lois-Roth-Award-for-a-Translation-of-a-Literary-Work-Winners
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