Tomás Mac Eoin

Tomás Mac Eoin (born 1937) is an Irish sean-nós singer, actor, songwriter and poet. Also known as Tomás McKeown, he is from An Bóthar Buí in An Cheathrú Rua, Conamara, Galway, Ireland.

Known for his old-style or sean-nós singing, he was voted the best sean-nós singer in Ireland in 1967 at the Oireachtas competitions and won the Ó'Riada Trophy.^[1] He appeared on The Waterboys's Fisherman's Blues album (1988).^[2][3]

He was a regular singer on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and also performed on The Late Late Show several times.^{[citation needed]} Some of his best known material include:^{[citation needed]}

• The Stolen Child ** (Tomás Mac Eoin / Mike Scott)
• An Cailín Álainn
• Bleán na Bó
• Amhrán an Bhingó
• An Rock an' Roll

References

External links

• Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002 recorded material Archived 22 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• Interview with Máirtín Tom Sheáinín on Ardtráthnóna with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta