Liam Mac Con Iomaire

Liam Mac Con Iomaire (1937, Casla, County Galway – 5 May 2019)[1] was a highly respected Irish writer, journalist and broadcaster.

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.

[2] He was the father of musician, Colm Mac Con Iomaire.

[3][4] 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 University Press, 2016).

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