Hayden Murphy

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Hayden Murphy c.1969

Hayden Murphy (born 1945) is an Irish editor, literary critic and poet. He was born in Dublin, and brought up there and in Limerick. He was educated at Blackrock College and Trinity College, Dublin.

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Murphy was election agent for Eoin O'Mahony's unsuccessful attempt to run in the 1966 Irish presidential election. [1] 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 Scottish politics, current affairs, history and the arts review, Calgacus. [2]

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  1. "O'Mahony still seeks nomination" . The Irish Times. 29 April 1966. p. 7.
  2. 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, ISSN   0307-2029