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.
[2] Ó Murchú was born and reared in England, where he joined the Connolly Association and got involved in the republican movement.
[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.
[6] He worked as political correspondent for RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.