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The kick : a memoir of the poet Richard Murphy by Murphy, Richard, 1927-2018, author is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

What is The kick : a memoir of the poet Richard Murphy about?

A memoir from one of Ireland's most distinguished poets. Richard Murphy writes with affectionate lack of sentiment about the Protestant gentry from which he comes. The literary milieu in London, Dublin, and New York are described with serenely devastating honesty. Here too are disturbing memories of discrimination against Irish Travelers, and of extreme violence in Sri Lanka. The Kick is the record of a lifetime's engagement with the fracturing tensions of personal life and with the more obvious

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Murphy, Richard, 1927-2018, author
Publisher
Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781782052340
Category
biography
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
Updated
2026-03-25

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