![]() ![]() After her travels, she always returned there. ![]() In 2021, she won the prestigious Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.īorn in 1931, Murphy grew up in Lismore, Co Waterford, the only child of Dubliners, Fergus and Kathleen Murphy. In 2019, the Royal Geographical Society celebrated her work with the Ness Award for the “popularisation of geography through travel literature”. In 1979, Murphy won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s (1978), written after time spent with members of the Protestant and Catholic communities there. “Today’s travel writers Colin Thubron and Sara Wheeler have often acknowledged her legacy of absolute veracity, humility and fearlessness,” added Rose Baring. ![]() ![]() Her courage to set off across the globe on her bike has inspired female travellers the world over. She was interested in everyone, and boundaries of class and race seemed invisible to her,” said Rose Baring from Eland.Īlthough solitary by nature, Murphy was generous with her time, often encouraging new generations of travellers over a beer at her home in Lismore. Though supremely well read, she really believed in understanding a place through the words of its inhabitants. “She was a great traveller, but more importantly she was a brilliant listener. ![]()
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