Liam Mac Con Iomaire (born 1937,
Casla
Casla (Costello or Costelloe) is a Gaeltacht village between Indreabhán (Inverin) and An Cheathrú Rua (Carraroe) in western County Galway, Ireland. The headquarters of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta is located there. The village lies on the R3 ...
,
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
Connemara (; )( ga, Conamara ) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland. The area has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and contains much of the Connacht Irish-speaking Gaeltacht, ...
, as well as landmark Irish language biographies of
Breandán Ó hEithir and
Seosamh Ó hÉanaí
Joe Heaney (AKA Joe Éinniú; Irish: Seosamh Ó hÉanaí) (1 October 1919 – 1 May 1984) was an Irish traditional ( sean nós) singer from County Galway, Ireland. He spent most of his adult life abroad, living in England, Scotland and New York ...
. He was the father of musician,
Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Colm Mac Con Iomaire () is an Irish composer and musician from Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland, who plays violin and sings with The Frames.
He is the son of Liam Mac Con Iomaire, a writer, journalist and broadcaster.
He attended school a ...
.
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
() is an Irish language novel by Máirtín Ó Cadhain. It was first published in 1949. It is considered one of the greatest novels written in the Irish language.
Title
''Cré na Cille'' literally means "Earth of the Church"; it has also been ...
: A Narrative in Ten Interludes'', by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Yale Univ. Press, 2016).
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
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
''(with
Tim Robinson), Yale University Press, 2015. (Translated from the original
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (; 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel ''Cré na Cille'', Ó Cadhain played a key role in reintroducing literary mod ...
novel ''Cré na Cille'').
See also
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Mac Con Iomaire
Mac Con Iomaire, Gaelic-Irish surname
Overview
In Ireland, the surname Montgomery has in some cases undergone gaelicisation, with Montgomery translated into ''Mac Con Iomaire''. It is also used to translate the surname Ridge. It is found main ...
, 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.
Irish biographers
Irish male writers
Male biographers
RTÉ newsreaders and journalists
People from County Galway
2019 deaths
1937 births
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people
Irish-language writers
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