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Richard Murphy (born 1927 in County Mayo, Ireland
Ireland

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) is an Irish poet
Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise....
. He was awarded the Æ Memorial Award (1951); first prize, Guinness Awards, Cheltenham (1962); British Arts Council Awards (1967 and 1976); Marten Toonder Award (1980); Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature

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 (1969); and American-Irish Foundation Award (1983).

He is a member of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 and lives in South Africa.

hy was born at Milford House near the Mayo-Galway border in 1927.






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Richard Murphy (born 1927 in County Mayo, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
) is an Irish poet
Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise....
. He was awarded the Æ Memorial Award (1951); first prize, Guinness Awards, Cheltenham (1962); British Arts Council Awards (1967 and 1976); Marten Toonder Award (1980); Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior Literature organisation in United Kingdom". It was founded in 1820 by George IV of the United Kingdom, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent"....
 (1969); and American-Irish Foundation Award (1983).

He is a member of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 and lives in South Africa.

Biography

Murphy was born at Milford House near the Mayo-Galway border in 1927. He spent five years of his early childhood in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
. Educated at boarding schools in Ireland and England, he won a scholarship to Oxford at 17 and studied English under C.S. Lewis. From 1951 until 1980 he lived mostly in Claddaghduff
Claddaghduff

Claddaghduff is a village in County Galway, in the province of Connacht, Republic of Ireland. It is located northwest of Clifden, the gateway to Omey Island, and like much of Connemara is noted for its beautiful seascapes....
, Connemara
Connemara

Connemara , which derives from Conmhaicne Mara , is a district in the west of Ireland consisting of a broad peninsula between Killary Harbour and Kilkieran Bay in the west of County Galway or south west Connacht....
. He then moved to Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 in 1980.

Since 1971 Murphy has been a poet-in-residence at nine American universities. Now he divides his time between Dublin and Durban, South Africa, where his daughter and her family reside. In 1993, a unique memoir of his life and times was published by Granta, constructed from astonishingly detailed diaries kept over the course of five decades. The Kick Granta 2003

Bibliography

His poetry collections include:
  • The Archaeology of Love (Dolmen, 1955)
  • Sailing to an Island (Faber, 1963)
  • The Battle of Aughrim (Knopf, and Faber, 1968; LP recording 1969)
  • High Island (Faber 1974)
  • High Island: New and Selected Poems (Harper and Row, 1975)
  • Selected Poems (Faber 1979)
  • The Price of Stone (Faber 1985)
  • The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems (Wake Forest U. Press, 1985)
  • New Selected Poems (Faber, 1989)
  • The Mirror Wall (Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1989, Wake Forest U. Press, 1989)
  • In The Heart Of The Country: Collected Poems (Oldcastle, Co Meath, Gallery Press, 2000)
  • Collected Poems Wake Forest U. Press, Winston Salem, 2001.


See also

  • Members of Aosdána


External links


  • North American publisher of Murphy