Kathleen M. Murphy was born in
Tulla, County Clare in 1879. She was educated at the
Laurel Hill Convent in
Limerick. She studied modern languages at
University College Dublin. In 1932, Murphy won first prize in the
Aonach Tailtean Literary Competition, and the
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Papal decoration for her poetry. Murphy travelled extensively from the late 1930s across Asia, Africa and South America, and wrote for various publications including
The Capuchin Annual. In a letter to the editor of the
Annual, Father Senan, with autobiographical notes for the 1945/46 edition in which she described herself as "Ireland's super-tramp!" Murphy died in
Birr, County Offaly on 22 March 1963. ==Bibliography==