Seamus Murphy

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Seamus Murphy, born near Mallow, County Cork, Ireland in 1907, was a sculptor and stone carver, known for designing the Blackpool Church. Having left school at the age of twelve, he worked as an apprentice sculptor and eventually became an RHA professor of sculpture. In 1944 he married Maighread Higgins, daughter of the Cork sculptor Joseph Higgins, and they went on to have three children; the knitwear designer Bebhinn Marten, the novelist Orla Murphy and the painter and De Dannan member Colm Murphy. He died in 1975.

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