Séamus Mac an Iomaire

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Séamus Mac An Iomaire (1891–1967) was an Irish botanist and writer.

Biography[]

Mac an Iomaire was born at Muighinis in Connemara on 13 January 1891. During 1919–1926, he had a number of stories, essays, songs and lists of terms and proverbs published in the Galway journal An Stoc, edited by Professor , before emigrating to New York City in the latter year. In New York he taught classes in Irish for the , and while recovering from tuberculosis in 1927, he wrote Cladaigh Chonamara, which was published in 1938.

In 1966, he presented a number of his manuscripts to the Irish Folklore Commission, and completed his final work, Connemara Man, before his death on 15 November 1967.

Bibliography[]

• Cladaigh Chonamara, Réamh-fhocal ó Tomás Ó Máille, , 1938.
• Connemara Man, New York, Prentice Hall, 1967.

See also[]

• Mac an Iomaire
• Mac Con Iomaire

External links[]

• Mac an Iomaire, Seamus. "The Shores Of Connemara". Shvoong. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
• "New Hibernia Review - Geimhreadh/Winter 2001". Center for Irish Studies, University of St Thomas. Archived from the original on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

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