Micheál Ó Conghaile (writer)

Micheál Ó Conghaile (born 1962) is an Irish language writer.

A native of Inis Treabhair, Connemara, he currently lives in Indreabhán.

Ó Conghaile founded Irish-language publishing company Cló Iar-Chonnachta in 1985, which has since published over three hundred books, and some two hundred music albums and spoken word albums.

He has translated Martin McDonagh’s plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West, edited a short story anthology for teenagers, and translated the Irish-language film Kings, directed by Tom Collins in 2007 (based on The Kings of the Kilburn High Road by Jimmy Murphy) . His awards include The Butler Literary Award of the Irish American Cultural Institute (1997) and the 1997 Hennessy Literary Award for his short story Athair

Writer in Residence at Queen’s University, Belfast and at the University of Ulster Coleraine between 1999–2002, his works have been translated into Romanian, Croatian, Albanian, German and English.

Bibliography

• Mac an tSagairt, Gallimh, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1986
• Comhrá Cailí, 1987
• Conamara agus Árainn 1880-1980, 1993
• Gnéithe d’Amhráin Chonamara ár Linne, 1993
• An Fear a Phléasc 1997
• Sna Fir, 1999
• Seachrán Jeaic Sheáin Johnny, 2002
• An Fear nach nDéanann Gáire, 2003
• Cúigear Chonamara/The Connemara Five, Una Ní Chonchuir, 2007
• Jude/Gaeilgeoir Deareanach Charna/Incubus, with Breandan Ó hEaghra and Caitriona Ní Chonaola, 2007

References

• http://www.irishwriters-online.com/michealoconghaile.html
• http://coislife.ie/Authors/otherauthors/michealoconghaile2.htm
• http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2007/connemara-five.html
• http://www.connemara.net/news/index.php?id=019
• http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2003/may/04/alone-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

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