About Liam Mac Con Iomaire
Lived 1937 – 2019 (aged 81–82). Liam Mac Con Iomaire was an Irish biographer, writer, journalist, translator, singer and university teacher.
Liam Mac Con Iomaire (1937, Casla, County Galway – 5 May 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, 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.
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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Who was Liam Mac Con Iomaire?
Irish journalist
When was Liam Mac Con Iomaire born?
Liam Mac Con Iomaire was born on 9 October 1937 in Casla.
When did Liam Mac Con Iomaire die?
Liam Mac Con Iomaire died in 2019.
What was Liam Mac Con Iomaire's occupation?
Liam Mac Con Iomaire was a biographer, writer, journalist, translator, singer and university teacher.
What nationality was Liam Mac Con Iomaire?
Liam Mac Con Iomaire was Irish.
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