Life
?-?; b. Birr; traveller, poetic contributor to magazines; contrib. autobiographical
letters to Capuchin Annual. 1952,
Quotations
‘[...] I have visited nearly all the famous ruins of the world, including
even those of the Khmers and the Incas. [...] the Great Pyramid of Egypt
and the Great Wall of China [...] [and] - a far rarer achievement - I
have stood on the pillar St Simon Stylites in Syria. [...] Rio [...] Bali
[...] dined with a sheikh in Morocco [...] succeeded in penetrating into
the palace of the Shah of Persia to see the marvellous Peacock Throne
[...] stark simplicity in a jungle shack [...] rock tombs of Petra [...]
locked inside the mausoleum of a Shogun in Japan [...] escape [...] from
Belgrade [...] Papal decoration for religious poetry [...] photographed
[...] mounted in tallest camel in Africa [...] too unconventional to be
published in the Capuchin Annual [...]. Yrs. sincerely, K. M. Murphy.'
(Capuchin Annual, 1952; quoted in Anne Colman, Irish Women
Poets [q.pub.])
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