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'').

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