Hayden Murphy (born 1945) is an Irish editor, literary critic and poet. He was born in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

, and brought up there and in

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. He was educated at

Blackrock College Blackrock College () is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Williamstown, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland. It was founded by French missionary Jules Leman in 1860 as a school and later became al ...

and

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. During 1967-78 he edited, published, and personally distributed ''Broadsheet'', which contained poetry and graphics. In the mid-1970s, he contributed reviews of collections and recordings of poetry to the

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politics, current affairs, history and the arts review, ''Calgacus''.Murphy, Hayden, (1976), review of ''The Frost is All Over'' by Pearse Hutchinson and ''A Farewell to England'' by Michael Hartnett, in ''Calgacus'' 3, Spring 1976, p. 55,

Selected works

*''Flames of History'', illustrations by John Behan (1999) *''Wedded Echoes'' (1995) *''Exile's Journal: A Poem Sequence'', with Hugh Bryden (Jun 1992) *''Broadsheet: Poetry, Prose and Graphics: Exhibition Catalogue'' (1983) *''Places Of Glass'' (1979) *''Considering...'' (1977) *''Broadsheet, No.19'' (1972) *''Poems'' (1967)

References

External links

National Library of Scotland
*https://norch.co.uk/hayden-murphy Irish poets Living people 1945 births People educated at Blackrock College {{Ireland-poet-stub