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Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy was born in County Mayo in 1927. His major works as a poet include The Battle of Aughrim (1968) and High Island (1974). His Collected Poems were published in 2000. He now lives in Durban, South Africa.

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Brief Encounters

Richard Murphy

‘The year was 1944. The Germans had started to rain their first flying bombs on England’.

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