Richard Murphy (poet)
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Richard Murphy (born 1927 in County Mayo, Ireland) is an Irish poet. 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 (1969); and American-Irish Foundation Award (1983).
He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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[edit] 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. Educated at boarding schools in Ireland and England, he won a scholarship to Oxford at 17 and studied English under C.S. Lewis. Since 1951 he had lived mostly in Connemara, till 1980 when he moved to Dublin.
Since 1971 he 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.
[edit] 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 Forrest, 1985)
- New Selected Poems (Faber, 1989)
- The Mirror Wall (Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1989)
- In The Heart Of The Country: Collected Poems (Oldcastle, Co Meath, Gallery Press, 2000)
