Ó Gormáin, Muiris

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

>Ó Gormáin, Muiris (?1720–1794), poet and scribe. Born in Ulster, he taught Irish to Charles Vallancey , among others, and he fell foul of Peadar Ó Doirnín because of a supposed lack of competence in English. Though he spent most of his later life in Dublin, where he was a member of the Ó Neachtain circle of scholars, he resided for a while in Belanagare transcribing material for Charles O'Conor the Elder; and he helped Charlotte Brooke in compiling and translating Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789).