![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He saluted her 'vital social conscience': "From her 1965 book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle - which documented her remarkable journey on her bike through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - to her many works detailing her experiences in locations as varied as Northern Ireland, England, the United States, Russia, Cuba, the Himalayas, the Middle East and across Africa, always an ethical visitor she brought a vital social conscience and respect for those she wrote about. Her contribution to writing, and to travel writing in particular, had a unique commitment to the value of human experience in all its diversity." ![]() While known as Ireland’s most famous travel writer, such a description barely captures the fullness and deep understanding captured in her work. President Higgins has said: “People throughout Ireland, in her community of Lismore and far beyond to the many places in which she travelled, and they were many, will have been saddened to hear of the death of Dervla Murphy. She documented her journery on her bike across Europe and the East in her 1965 book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle . ![]()
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