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Richard Murphy


Born
in County Mayo, Ireland
August 06, 1927

Died
January 30, 2018

Genre
Poetry, Memoir


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Richard Murphy was one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets. He is particularly known for poems that draw on the landscape and history of the west of Ireland. His Collected Poems (Gallery Press) was published in 2000, his acclaimed autobiography The Kick (Granta Books) in 2003. His awards include the Cheltenham Award and the American-Irish Foundation Award.

‘Richard Murphy’s verse is classical in a way that demonstrates what the classical strengths really are. It combines a high music with simplicity, force and directness in dealing with the world of action. He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, ...more

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Theorizing the Avant-Garde:...
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The Kick: A Life Among Writers
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Sailing to an island
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The battle of Aughrim;: And...
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The Blackguards
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The Mirror Wall
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions
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“Even our best qualities can turn against us, and when they do we are usually the last to know.”
― Richard Murphy, Confessions of a Contractor
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