Liam Mac Con Iomaire
Liam Mac Con Iomaire (born 1937, Casla, County Galway – died 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). 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 Máirtín Ó Cadhain novel Cré na Cille). See also
 Mac Con Iomaire, the Gaelic-Irish surname

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External links
Obituary, irishtimes.com; accessed 22 July 2020. Obituary, rte.ie; accessed 22 July 2020. Notice of death of Liam Mac Con Iomaire; accessed 22 July 2020. Liam Mac Con Iomaire profile, beo.ie; accessed 22 July 2020. Irish male writers
Male biographers
RTÉ newsreaders and journalists
Broadcasters from County Galway
2019 deaths
1937 births
Irish-language writers
Writers from County Galway
20th-century Irish biographers
21st-century Irish biographers