Liam Mac Con Iomaire

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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[]

• Mac Con Iomaire, the Gaelic-Irish surname

References[]

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.

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