Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in bot
A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands of dominating patriarchs, yet also how it hardens
Murphy presents her journal of a trip she and her five-year-old daughter made to southern India in 1973-74. She describes initiation in Bombay, hippies in Goa, Tibetans in Mundgod, discovering Coorg,
Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwri
Irish travel writer Murphy (also known for her advocacy against nuclear power and her writing on race relations) was in her 30s in 1966 when she journeyed alone from the Red Sea through the mountains
Young Irish travel writer Murphy spent six months in Tibet during 1963, and here offers her insights into such matters as the iron road to Rexaul, descent on Pokhara, Tibetans on trek, animal spirits,
A celebrated Northern Irish travel writer approaches the complex political and social climate of contemporary South Africa, finding some comparisons to her own troubled native land. In order to direc
