[Richard Murphy, was born at Milford House near the Mayo-Galway border, Ireland, in 1927. He spent five years of his early childhood in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Educated at boarding schools in Ireland and England, he won a scholarship to Oxford at 17 and studied English under C.S. Lewis. From 1951 until 1980 he lived mostly in Claddaghduff, Connemara. Since 1971 Murphy has been a poet-in-residence at nine American universities. Now he divides his time between Dublin and Durban, South Africa. His poetry collections include: The Archaeology of Love, 1955; Sailing to an Island, 1963; The Battle of Aughrim, 1968; High Island, 1974; High Island: New and Selected Poems , 197; Selected Poems, 1979; The Price of Stone, 1985; The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems, 1985; New Selected Poems, 1989; The Mirror Wall, 1989; In The Heart Of The Country: Collected Poems, 2000), Collected Poems, 2001.
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