Dervla Murphy | |
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Ganwyd | 28 Tachwedd 1931 Lios Mór |
Bu farw | 22 Mai 2022 Lios Mór |
Dinasyddiaeth | Gweriniaeth Iwerddon |
Galwedigaeth | seiclwr, ysgrifennwr, seiclwr cystadleuol |
Adnabyddus am | Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle |
Gwobr/au | Cymrawd o'r Gymdeithas Frenhinol a Llenyddol, Gwobr Ness, Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing |
Gwefan | https://www.travelbooks.co.uk/dervla-murphy |
Seiclwr teithiol Gwyddelig ac awdur llyfrau teithio oedd Dervla Murphy (28 Tachwedd 1931 – 22 Mai 2022). Roedd hi'n fwyaf adnabyddus am ei llyfr 1965, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle,
Cafodd Murphy ei geni yn Lismore, Swydd Waterford. Roedd ei rhieni yn hanu o Ddulyn
Ysgrifennodd hefyd am ei theithiau gyda'i plentyn Rachel yn India, Pacistan, De America, Madagascar a Chamerŵn. Yn 2005, ymwelodd â Chiwba gyda'i merch a'i thair wyres. Tad Rachel oedd y newyddiadurwr Terence de Vere White. [1]
Ni briododd Murphy erioed. Disgrifiwyd ei phenderfyniad i fagu ei merch ar ei phen ei hun fel “dewis dewr yn Iwerddon y 1960au” gan The Sunday Business Post, er iddi ddweud ei bod yn teimlo’n ddiogel rhag beirniadaeth oherwydd ei bod yn ei thridegau a’i bod yn ddiogel yn ariannol ac yn broffesiynol. [2] Yn dilyn genedigaeth Rachel, treuliodd bum mlynedd fel adolygydd llyfrau cyn dychwelyd i ysgrifennu teithio.[3]
Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN | Pages |
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle | 1965 | John Murray | 235[4] | |
Tibetan Foothold | 1966 | John Murray | 206[5] | |
The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal | 1967 | John Murray | 216[6] | |
In Ethiopia with a Mule | 1968 | John Murray | 281[7] | |
On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of South India | 1976 | John Murray | ISBN 0719532841 | 261[8] |
Where the Indus Is Young: A Winter in Baltistan | 1977 | John Murray | ISBN 071953335X | 266[9] |
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s | 1978 | John Murray | ISBN 0719534763 | 290[10] |
Wheels Within Wheels: Autobiography | 1979 | John Murray | ISBN 0719536499 | 236[11] |
Race to the Finish?: The Nuclear Stakes | 1982 | John Murray | ISBN 071953884X | 264[12] |
Eight Feet in the Andes | 1983 | John Murray | ISBN 0719540836 | 276[13] |
Muddling through in Madagascar | 1985 | John Murray | ISBN 0719542391 | 288[14] |
Changing the Problem: Post-forum Reflections | 1984 | The Lilliput Press | ISBN 0946640076 | 36[15] |
Ireland (text by Dervla Murphy and photography by Klaus Francke) | 1985 | Orbis | ISBN 0856137979 | 208[16] |
Tales from Two Cities: Travel of Another Sort | 1987 | John Murray | ISBN 0719544351 | 314[17] |
Cameroon with Egbert | 1990 | John Murray | ISBN 0719546893 | 282[18] |
Transylvania and Beyond | 1992 | John Murray | ISBN 9781780601205 | 239[19] |
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe | 1993 | John Murray | ISBN 0719552508 | 276[20] |
South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa | 1997 | John Murray | ISBN 0719557895 | 432[21] |
Visiting Rwanda | 1998 | The Lilliput Press | ISBN 1901866114 | 246[22] |
One Foot in Laos | 1999 | John Murray | ISBN 0719559693 | 284[23] |
Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys | 2002 | John Murray | ISBN 0719562325 | 388[24] |
Through Siberia by Accident: A Small Slice of Autobiography | 2005 | John Murray | ISBN 0719566630 | 302[25] |
Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals | 2006 | John Murray | ISBN 9780719568282 | 288[26] |
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba | 2008 | Eland | ISBN 9781906011352 | 421[27] |
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza | 2013 | Eland | ISBN 9781906011475 | 258[28] |
Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine | 2015 | Eland | ISBN 9781780600451 | 442[29] |