Máirtín Ó Murchú Explained

Máirtín Ó Murchú is an Irish professor of Celtic studies and emeritus professor of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.^{[1] [2]} He previously also was Director of the School of Celtic at DIAS and a Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin.^[3]

He has published widely on Irish and Scottish Gaelic linguistics and the Irish language in general, such as the handbook on the state of the Irish language (co-authored with Helen Ó Murchú) for the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages^[4] or the section on Irish in Blackwell's Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe^[5]

He has also been fundamental in the development of a standard pronunciation for Irish, the Lárchanúint, in particular his 1969 article Common Core and Underlying Forms which has been described as ground-breaking.^[6]

Publications

One of his key publications in Scottish Gaelic studies was East Perthshire Gaelic: Social History, Phonology, Texts and Lexicon on the now defunct Scottish Gaelic dialect of East Perthshire.^[7]

Other academic works include:

• (1985) The Irish Language. Dept. of Foreign Affairs/Bord na Gaeilge
  • (1993) "Aspects of the Societal Status of Modern Irish" in The Celtic Languages; edited by Martin J. Ball with James Fife. (Routledge Language Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge (2000) "An Ghaeltacht mar réigiún cultúrtha: léargas teangeolaíoch" in Teanga, pobal agus réigiún; eagarthóirí: Liam Mac Mathúna, Ciarán Mac Murchaidh agus Máirín Nic Eoin. Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim
• (2002) Ag Dul ó Chion: Cás na Gaeilge 1952-2002. (An aimsir óg. 1. Paimflead.) Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim
• (2005) Dineen and Ó Donaill in Dinneen and the Dictionary; edited by Pádraigín Riggs. London: Irish Texts Society

Notes and References

1. Web site: Guest Speakers at the 2006 Merriman Summer School . Cumann Merriman . 25 August 2012.
2. Web site: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies - Staff and scholars . 25 August 2012.
3. Web site: National Library of Ireland . October 2002 . National Library of Ireland . 5 September 2012.
4. Ó Murchú, M. & Ó Murchú, H. Irish: Facing the Future / An Ghaeilge: a hAghaidh Roimpi (1999) EBLUL
5. Price, G. An Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe (1998) Blackwell
6. Nic Pháidín, C. & Ó Cearnaigh, S. A New View of the Irish Language (2008) Cois Life Teo
7. Ó Murchú, M. East Perthshire Gaelic: Social History, Phonology, Texts, and Lexicon (1989) Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath