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I am now half way reading ‘Wheels on Wheels’ by Dervla Murphy, which is gripping and funny. It was quite curious (well I found it funny, but then I wasn’t a relative), when as a young child in Ireland, she had an unusual hobby of – collecting skeleton bones, as she wanted to be a [...]

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October 15, 2008 · No Comments

I picked up an autobiography by Dervla Murphy, the Irish world-the-world cyclist and I am hooked! I don’t particularly want to go out today.
Though I haven’t quite finished it yet, I am glued to her tales of her Irish parents and Convent life, and all the religious doctrine and the [...]

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