Ó Conghaile, Micheál

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

Ó Conghaile, Micheál (1962– ), writer of fiction; born in Inis Treabhair, Co. Galway, and educated at UCG, he founded Cló Iar-Chonnachta at Indreabhán in 1985, which proved to be a major force in the Irish-language movement in the 1990s. Mac an tSagairt (1986) and An Fear a Phléasc (1997) were short story collections; Sna Fir (2000) a novel.

Ó Conghaile's style is energetic and fluent, reflecting contemporary Gaeltacht speech-patterns; his material is frequently the exciting and dangerous underworld of homosexual encounters.