Darach Mac Con Iomaire is an Irish actor, writer and director.

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has written and directed four episodes of ''Corp agus Anam'' in 2011, and wrote an episode of another TV series, ''Síol'', broadcast in 2010. He has acted in the 2002 short film, ''Padraig agus Nadia'', and as Harry Lyons in a 1996 episode of ''

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''. He works almost exclusively in the

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. Although raised in Dublin, his father is from Connemara and Irish was spoken at home. The family also spent their holidays in Galway. Darach Mac Con Iomaire is a former

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, the national Irish language theatre, and a winner of the

Walter Macken Walter Macken (3 May 1915 – 22 April 1967) (Irish Uaitéar Ó Maicín), was born in Galway, Ireland. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Biography Walter Macken was originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc (where h ...

Memorial Award.

References

External links

Interview with Mac Con Iomaire
7 June 2016.
Profile
irishplayography.com; accessed 22 July 2020. *
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