Career
He is best known as Tomás "Jimmy" Mac Eoin from An Bóthar Buí in An Cheathrú Rua, Conamara, Galway, Ireland. Irish is the spoken language, although Tomás, like most others in the area, is proficient in English also. As with many people in the West, his life seems to revolve around music
Although probably too modest to ever admit it, he seems to have an unending capacity for song-making.
lieutenant has been said of him — “the man has forgotten more songs than most people would be able to learn in a lifetime of serious collecting”. Some of Tomás"s best known material include
The Stolen Child ** (Tomás Mac Eoin / Mike Scott (musician))
An Cailín Álainn
Bleán na Bó
Amhrán an Bhingó
An Rock an’ Roll
Regular singer on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, he also performed on The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne several times.
Appeared on the Fisherman"s Blues album with the Waterboys.