# Dervla Murphy
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dervla murphy (born 28 November 1931) is an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books for over 40 years.
Murphy is best known for her 1965 book Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle, about an overland cycling trip through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. She followed this with volunteer work helping Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal and trekking with a mule through Ethiopia.
Sahir Permall – Cycling 2,800 miles Solo from Glasgow to Istanbul & Empowering Women Through Biking
Sahir Permall is an adventurer, writer, and senior leader in the third sector who is passionate about getting more women on bikes. As the head of a Glasgow-based cycling charity, she is dedicated to making cycling more accessible and empowering women to experience the freedom of two wheels.
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I’ve been writing about travel, culture and the world’s marginal places for more than two decades — serious desert expeditions, long solo journeys through Central America and East Asia, my expat life in multiple countries, and strange geographical and cultural corners of Europe.
I broke into publis…
53: Dervla Murphy: A Life at Full Tilt
Described as ‘the first lady of Irish cycling’, Dervla Murphy was renowned for her intrepid spirit, and she remained passionate about travel, writing, politics, conservation and bicycling until her death in 2022. In this episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast we have gathered a number of those who k…
Are We Over Tourism?
With scenes of protest erupting in some of the most visited cities and countries in the world – telling tourists to go home – Wander Woman, Phoebe Smith, shows how merely travelling a little north of the Croatian honeypot of Dubrovnik to explore the region of Zadar the rewards can be great - for tr…
Presents: Garret Daly, Director of Who is Dervla Murphy?
Who is Dervla Murphy? profiles Ireland’s most prolific travel writer, through rare and exclusive access to Dervla, her family and friends. In this podcast Grace Corry chats with director Garret Daly to find out more about his documentary and the elusive figure it reveals.
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Episode 138: Dervla Murphy
Join me this week to hear about a woman who lived life with an intensity that most of us only dream about. Dervla refused to live by anyone else's standards or expectations, and at 31 decided that it was time to live her dream of riding her bike from Ireland to India. Her adventures are documented …
Understanding Chile with Author and Adventurer Natascha Scott-Stokes
Simply trying to get your head around Natascha Scott-Stokes' incredible biography can make your head spin. In 1989, she became the first woman to navigate the length of the Amazon alone. Legendary Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy called the resulting book, An Amazon and a Donkey, "a genuine advent…
#151 | Garret Daly | Director/Producer
On this weeks episode in a slight reshuffle Paul Butler Lennox @paulbutlerlennox is joined by Director, Producer Garret Daly. Garret Daly
Garret is a multifaceted and hugely assertive Film, TV and Audio and education professional who's productivity is self evident in his wide range of work acr…
ABT056. Instrument of Discovery: Unpacking the Legacy of Dervla Murphy with AI
Dervla Murphy has long fascinated host Gabriel Aldaz, who years ago had picked up her first and most famous book, Full Tilt. The intrepid travel writer from Ireland died in 2022 at the age of 90, but Gabriel has remained curious to learn more about her. For this experimental episode, he goes into h…
From Crisis to Quest: Rethinking Teacher Recruitment with Professor Rob Klassen
Why are we still trying to solve a 21st-century teacher recruitment crisis with 20th-century solutions? In this episode, Professor Rob Klassen from the University of Oxford argues that the problem isn't just structural - it's psychological. Young people don't choose teaching because they don't real…
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