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 South Africa.
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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. From 1951 until 1980 he lived mostly in Claddaghduff, Connemara. He then moved to Dublin in 1980.
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. 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
[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)
