A book of condolences has opened for renowned travel writer and touring cyclist Dervla Murphy who passed away at the age of 90.She famously documented her six-month journey through Europe, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on a bike in Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle in 1965.Mr Higgins said she had a “unique commitment to the value of human experience in all its diversity”.
“I would like to send my deepest condolence to her daughter, Rachel, with whom she shared so many of her adventures, her grandchildren, and to all her family and friends.” She also travelled across the border to Northern Ireland and chronicled her time spent in the province in the book, A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
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