Dervla Murphy

Standard Name: Murphy, Dervla
Birth Name: Dervilla Mary Murphy
Nickname: Dervla
DM , cosmopolitan Irishwoman, is primarily a travel writer, with more than twenty books to her credit. She excels at vivid rendering of human international contact (often made over drinks), at trenchant and well-informed socio-political analysis (perhaps above all of Northern Ireland), and at the autobiographical aspects of her craft. Beginning in the later twentieth century, the political and social aspects of her books became steadily more important and her urge to seek out trouble spots began to predominate over the need to seek out beautiful and remote places.
Colour photo of Dervla Murphy smiling and holding a black and white cat that has its face turned away from the camera, October 1990.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Isabella Bird
Before publication in book form, some of the letters appeared in periodicals such as Out West and The Leisure Hour. The book was translated for a French edition and published in America by G. P. Putnam Sons
Publishing Ella K. Maillart
She completed writing the book at Mount Salève in the French Alps.
On 14 July 1938 the Times published a lively, anecdotal letter from Maillart about smuggling across the Alpine frontier between France and...

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Texts

Murphy, Dervla. A Month by the Sea. Eland, 2013.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. John Murray, 1978.
Murphy, Dervla. A Place Apart. Penguin, 1979.
Murphy, Dervla. Between River and Sea. Eland, 2014.
Murphy, Dervla. Cameroon with Egbert. J. Murray, 1989.
Murphy, Dervla. Changing the Problem. Lilliput Press, 1984.
Murphy, Dervla. “Dervla Murphy’s Journeys in Cuba”. The Telegraph.
Murphy, Dervla. Eight Feet in the Andes. J. Murray, 1983.
Murphy, Dervla. “Foot Notes: Reflections on Travel Writing”. The Wilson Quarterly, Vol.
16
, pp. 122-9.
Murphy, Dervla. Full Tilt. John Murray, 1965.
Murphy, Dervla. Full Tilt. Flamingo, 1995.
Murphy, Dervla. In Ethiopia with a Mule. John Murray, 1968.
Murphy, Dervla et al. “Introduction”. Embassy to Constantinople, Century, 1988, pp. 7-37.
Murphy, Dervla. Muddling Through in Madagascar. J. Murray, 1985.
Murphy, Dervla. On a Shoestring to Coorg. J. Murray, 1976.
Murphy, Dervla. One Foot in Laos. J. Murray, 1999.
Murphy, Dervla. Race to the Finish?. J. Murray, 1981.
Murphy, Dervla. Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals. John Murray, 2006.
Murphy, Dervla. South from the Limpopo. John Murray, 1997.
Murphy, Dervla. Tales from Two Cities. J. Murray, 1987.
Murphy, Dervla. “Talking Books interview”. BBC World News.
Murphy, Dervla. The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba. Eland, 2008.
Murphy, Dervla. The Ukimwi Road. J. Murray, 1993.
Murphy, Dervla. Through Siberia by Accident. John Murray, 2005.
Murphy, Dervla. Through the Embers of Chaos. J. Murray, 2002.