Liam Mac Con Iomaire (1937,

Casla Casla (also known as 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 ...

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– 5 May 2019) was a highly respected Irish writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was a newsreader on

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. He was author of a number of books and some translations, mainly concerning

Connemara Connemara ( ; ) is a region on the Atlantic Ocean, 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. 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 keyboards, violin and sings with The Frames. He is the son of Liam Mac Con Iomaire, a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He attended ...

. 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 and is considered one of the greatest novels written in Irish. Title literally means "Earth of the Church"; it has also been translated as ''Graveyard Cl ...

: A Narrative in Ten Interludes'', by

Máirtín Ó Cadhain Máirtín Ó Cadhain (; 20 January 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel , ÓCadhain played a key role in reintroducing modernist literatur ...

(

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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 ''(with Tim Robinson), Yale University Press, 2015. (Translated from the original

novel ''Cré na Cille'').

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