By Richard Sandomir 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 ...

Frequently with a bike at her side, the late Dervla Murphy navigated countries little known to most travellers. We celebrate the uncompromising life and prolific works of Ireland’s ...

So I had a fair knowledge of what had gone on there and ... until I've finished the book I'm writing now. It's about Cuba. Dervla Murphy's 'Silverland: a Winter Journey Beyond the Urals' is ...

At the age of 10 Dervla Murphy was given an atlas and a bicycle, and so began an adventurous life. Her account of a journey to India became a classic called Full Tilt but she also went to Cuba ...

The moment was unforgettable. Dervla Murphy was ten, struggling up a steep hill near Lismore in County Waterford on her second-hand bike, when she looked down at her thin legs slowly pumping and ...

In 1963 the legendary travel writer began her career with a transcontinental trek. In an interview with Talking Books, she talks about the journey. Setting out on a bicycle she named Rocinante ...

SMOTHER star Dervla Kirwan has told how she found being catapulted into fame on Ballykissangel "very difficult". The actress shot to fame in the 90s when she played landlady Assumpta Fitzgerald in ...

Dervla Murphy died a year ago today ... Her reviews always demonstrated careful reading and fair assessment. On reviewing one book, she was scathing: “Search for the Maya is thoroughly tiresome ...

Mayor of Waterford City and County, councillor Joe Kelly, said: “I am saddened to hear of Dervla Murphy’s passing and extend my condolences to her daughter, grandchildren and many friends.