Her education, at the Ursuline Convent, Waterford, was cut short at the age of 14 when she had to look after mother who suffered from a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis. As a child she enjoyed writing, and gave her parents short stories or essays as Christmas and birthday presents. Her father Fergus Murphy was the county librarian and her mother, Kathleen encouraged her to read and discuss books. Waterford, the only child of Dubliners, Fergus and Kathleen Murphy. In 2021, she won the prestigious Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.ĭervla Murphy grew up in Lismore, Co. In 2019, the Royal Geographical Society celebrated her work with the Ness Award for the “popularisation of geography through travel literature”.
In 1979, she won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s (1978) written after time spent with members of the Protestant and Catholic communities there.
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