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 ''

Ros na Rún () is an Irish soap opera produced for the Irish-language television channel TG4. The series is set in a fictional village called Ros na Rún, located near to An Spidéal, where the series is filmed. It focuses on the domestic and professional ...

''. He works almost exclusively in the Irish language. Although raised in Dublin, his father is from

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and Irish was spoken at home. The family also spent their holidays in Galway. Darach Mac Con Iomaire is a former

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ...

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

Walter Macken Walter Macken (3 May 1915 – 22 April 1967; Irish: ), 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 he met his wife, ...

Memorial Award.

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External links

Interview with Mac Con Iomaire
7 June 2016.
Profile
irishplayography.com; accessed 22 July 2020. *
Get writing as Gaeilge (archive.org copy)
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