Dervla Murphy

Dervla Murphy received Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ness Award, Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

42 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1896 to 1988.

The Island That Dared. Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle. Tibetan Foothold. The Waiting Land. In Ethiopia with a Mule. On a Shoestring to Coorg. Where the Indus is Young. A Place Apart. Wheels Within Wheels: Autobiography. A Month by the Sea. Between River and Sea. Race to the Finish? Transylvania and Beyond. One Foot in Laos. Cameroon with Egbert. Muddling Through in Madagascar. South from the Limpopo. The Ukimwi Road. Through the Embers of Chaos. Silverland. Through Siberia by Accident. Eight Feet in the Andes. Tales from Two Cities. Visiting Rwanda. Images of India. Full tilt. Ireland. Wheels within wheels. BC Only Ukimwi Road. Changing the problem. Das wilde Herz Europas. Full tilt: Ireland to India with a bicycle by Dervla Murphy. In Cameron With Egbert. Muddling Through Madagascar. Nuclear stakes, race to the finish. Henry Ossawa Tanner, dated c. 1896, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1924.37. Northwestern Terminal Tower, Chicago, Illinois, Axonometric, dated 1982, airbrushed ink on resin coated paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.629. McCormick Place: Perspective View Looking toward Lake, dated c. 1969, collage with photographic print and line drawing, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.1069. United Airlines Terminal: Interior Perspective View of Concourse, dated 1985, ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2001.532.2. Block 37 Proposal, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective, dated 1985, colored ink on printed paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2001.560.1. Chicago Board of Trade Addition, Chicago, Illinois, Exterior Perspective, dated c. 1979, ink, graphite, and crayon on tracing paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2002.397.1. Embassy to Constantinople : the travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu / introduced by Dervla Murphy ; edited and compiled by Christopher Pick., dated 1988, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 7 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Murphy, Dervla, (born 28 Nov. 1931), writer, Who's Who, 2007. Murphy, Dervla, (28 Nov. 1931–22 May 2022), writer, Who Was Who, 2007. 28. Dervla Murphy, Selected Works (1965–2015), Handbook of British Travel Writing, 2020. 7. Representations of Maramureş in Contemporary Female Travel Writing: Dervla Murphy, Caroline Juler and Bronwen Riley, Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism, 2014. The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba, by Dervla Murphy; Walking to Guantánamo, by Richard Fleming, Studies in Travel Writing, 2011.

8 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

The waiting land (1967) — Internet Archive. South from the Limpopo (1999) — Internet Archive. Cameroon with Egbert (1990) — Internet Archive. FULL TILT (1965) — Internet Archive. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy (1965) — Internet Archive. Rapid narrative review of evidence-based and/or evidence-informed models of practice across health and social care from an epistemic justice perspective (2026) — Internet Archive. Tibetan Foothold (2000) — Internet Archive. On a shoestring to Coorg (1989) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is cycling and travel book.

Membership is recorded of Royal Society of Literature.

Works named in the authority record are Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle.

Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ness Award, Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.