Dervla Murphy (28 November 1931 – 22 May 2022) was an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books, writing for more than 50 years. Murphy is best known for her 1965 book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, about an overland cycling trip through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. She followed this with ...

2022年5月23日 · Dervla Murphy, Ireland's most intrepid and fearless travel writer has died aged 90. The west-Waterford based author of over 25 books travelled all over the world from Peru to Pakistan, from...

2022年5月27日 · For her 10th birthday, Dervla Murphy received a secondhand bicycle and an atlas. As she rode up a hill near her home that day in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland, she thought that if...

2022年5月26日 · A straight-talking woman of passionate convictions, Dervla Murphy was a travel writer who loved a local beer, hated cruise liners (“I’d pay £10,000 not to set foot on a cruise ship”) and ...

2022年5月23日 · Renowned Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy has died aged 90. The County Waterford-native published more than 25 books chronicling her travels through more than 30 countries. Irish President...

2022年5月23日 · Travel writer Dervla Murphy (82) is interviewed for our Generations series at her home in Lismore Co.Waterford. She reflects on childhood memories, cars, money, life and death. Video: Bryan...

2025年1月24日 · Dervla Murphy thrived on the joyous challenge of an open road to be travelled and a blank page to be filled. She was a disciplined and thorough researcher, becoming one of the most respected travel writers that has ever lived. She was a truly original thinker, influenced by Buddhism, socialism, feminism and environmentalism. ...

2023年11月20日 · Widely recognized as Ireland’s premier female travel writer, Dervla Murphy took her fair share of risks throughout a career that spanned seven decades and took her to thirty countries. Her adventures include fighting off a pack of wolves in Bulgaria and narrowly escaping with her life after robbery in Ethiopia, not to mention surviving tick ...

2023年5月22日 · Dervla Murphy died a year ago today. During her 90 years she published 24 acclaimed travel books, from Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, the first and best known of them, from...

2022年5月28日 · Dervla Murphy was the intrepid traveller and writer whose fascinating books recount the stories of her adventurous bicycle journeys throughout the world. Murphy, who has died aged 90,...