The wonderful Dervla Murphy whose travel books I loved and who inspired much of my own wanderlust. Here holding court in her seventies in the lovely town of Lismore Co. Waterford with a well deserved pint of plain.
Her Daughter Rachel the product of an informal but clearly loving relationship with the erstwhile literary editor of the Irish Times has recently been quoted as saying that she" can never really forgive her mother."Oh how like a serpents tooth......