Irish Film Institute -IRELAND ON SUNDAY: WHO IS DERVLA MURPHY?

IRELAND ON SUNDAY: WHO IS DERVLA MURPHY?

Director: Garret Daly

60 minutes| Ireland| 2010| Colour


Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.

Dervla Murphy is Ireland’s most prolific travel writer who for five decades has travelled the world alone and with her daughter Rachel. A fiercely independent woman who turned her back on societal conventions at a time when few were as brave, she observed and recorded the world with wonder and curiosity, and an astute political sensibility.

But who is Dervla Murphy? This new documentary explores the woman behind the words in an interview which shows her personal life to be as fascinating as her extensive journeys.The minutiae of life at home in Lismore and journeys abroad with her grandchildren provide an intimate backdrop to interviews with Dervla, her daughter Rachel, her publisher John Murray and fellow travel writer Manchan Magan.

The screening will be followed by Q&A with director Garret Daly.

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