| Eoin Ó Murchú | |
| Birth Name: | Eoin Murray |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Occupation: | Writer and retired journalist |
| Language: | Irish and English |
| Education: | Trinity College Dublin |
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| Movement: | Gaelic revival |
| Notableworks: | Culture and Revolution in Ireland |
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Eoin Ó Murchú is a writer and retired journalist in both Irish and English, a political activist and a former member of Official Sinn Féin/the Workers' Party, and the Communist Party of Ireland.[1] He is currently the interim national chairperson of the Irish Communist Party.[2]
Ó Murchú was born and reared in England, where he joined the Connolly Association and got involved in the republican movement. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and was a founding member of the Republican Club in the college and served as its chairman.
Ó Murchú edited the newspaper of the official republican movement United Irishman[3] and served on the Ard Comhairle of Official Sinn Féin.[4] His 1971 work Culture and Revolution in Ireland, formed a synthesis of Gaelic revival and Maoist themes. Ó Murchú was aligned with the faction who moved the Official Republican movement away from the armed struggle towards a socialist and electoral path. After joining the Communist party he served as its southern secretary, and also edited the party's newspaper The Irish Socialist.[5] In 1984, he stood unsuccessfully in the Laois–Offaly by-election as the Communist Party candidate.[6]
He worked as political correspondent for RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. Although retired from RTE, Ó Murchú remained active as a columnist and commentator appearing on Vincent Browne Tonight programme on TV3 from time to time. He also writes Political and Irish language columns for An Phoblacht.
He is a writer for Tuairisc.ie[7] and has written for Trinity News.[8]