Her parents passed away in the early 1960s and now free of obligations from home life, she took the opportunity to make that trip on her bike to India. She managed to get a few articles published in the Hibernia journal and the Irish Independent, but her first attempt at a book was rejected.
Her first trips though were South England and Wales but in the mid-1950s she was in France and Spain on her bike. On her tenth birthday, she was given a bicycle and an atlas and these two gifts gave her the idea of cycling to India after she realised that by just keeping pedalling she could make it to any point in the world she desired. She was an only child after her mother was advised not to have any more children because of rheumatoid arthritis. Ninety years ago on this very day, a girl called Dervla Murphy was born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland.
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