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] 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.
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