On the first anniversary of her death, Ethel Crowley writes about her friend, the extraordinary travel writer, Dervla Murphy.

#DervlaMurphy @sinabhfuil

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/05/22/dervla-murphys-irish-times-seven-decades-of-astute-observations-and-witty-writing/

@pezmico And as #DervlaMurphy said, cars are the ultimate fuel of #instantgratification

#7Books #irishbooks
Sticking to Irish books as just one branch of my #booklover 🌳. There's no way I could stick to just 7 overall 😁. Even this is tricky!
#EdnaOBrien The Little Red Shoes
#DervlaMurphy Full Tilt: From Ireland to India with a Bicycle #heroine
#AnneEnright The Gathering
#williamtrevor Fools of Fortune
#HugoHamilton The Speckled People
#JosephO'Connor Redemption Falls
#ColmToibin Mothers and sons

#7books
Not many #irishbooks mentioned and we have some wonderful writers past and present so am gonna concentrate on that particular cohort though I love many more from all over this gorgeous planet
#ColmToibin mothers and sons
#williamtrevor fools of fortune
#JamesJoyce Dubliners (my home town)
#elizabethbowen The Last September
#EdnaOBrien The Little Red Chairs
#DervlaMurphy Full Tilt From Ireland to India with a Bicycle #heroine
#timrobinson Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (honorary paddy😊)

“On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.” Dervla Murphy, born #OTD in 1931 #DervlaMurphy #cycling #Ireland #India

Lovely photo. Her book In Ethiopia with a Mule is one of the most mindbending travel tomes I've read - unbelievable physical feats, raw determination and, of course, plenty of exhilaration. Feel honoured to have met her.

RT @ElandPublishing@twitter.com

Dervla Murphy at the end of her trek in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 1967. Remembering Dervla on what would have been her 91st birthday #addisababa #ethiopia #dervlamurphy #rememberingdervla @PGUK_Books@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ElandPublishing/status/1597202092871266304