Irish journalist (1937–2019)
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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