Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Irish composer and musician
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Jul 29, 2026
Oscar-winner Glen Hansard dies in Dublin crash
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Katie HannonHOST
Just on a personal level, you, you know, 'cause as you go back, you go back to both of you in your teens, what, what, just what, what do you remember him most for?

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
Well, I mean, you know, I suppose essentially we were brothers from another mother, as they put it.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
Uh, um, you know, uh, in, in many ways, I think we, uh, we were very opposites to each other, which I suppose made us fascinated with each other.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
Um, and Glen was very extrovert, um, very outgoing, very bold and brash and brave, and I was far more, um, introverted and, uh, you know, keeping me thoughts to myself.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
Um, so I think we had, uh, just, it's even s- it's so bizarre to think of him in the past tense at all.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
Um, we thankfully did some Frames gigs earlier this year, and we got to spend some time together, and we've been in touch recently as well, and there was talk of doing more Frames stuff in the future.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
So it's, it's just a very hollow feeling today just to, to, to, to mourn another friend.

Katie HannonHOST
Uh, would, would, did, did, was there any kind of chips on shoulders carried because of that over the years, do you think?
Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 2)
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Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
[speaking Irish] Um, I'm gonna play you, uh, an air, um, that's ab- about, how old would it be? 170 years old or so.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
Um, but I was, a few months ago, I was working on a score for a documentary on Daniel O'Connell of this parish, and, uh, he, uh...

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
There was obviously the famine, uh, happened around the same time as Daniel actually died during the famine.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
But I was instantly drawn to this tune that I knew for a long time, as my father was a sean-nós singer himself.

Colm Mac Con IomaireGUEST
It's called Johnny Sheoiagh, or Johnny Joyce would be the English version.
