David Murphy

David Murphy was born in Dublin and is a graduate of both University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. Since 1997 he has worked for the Dictionary of Irish Biography, specialising in military and naval figures and polar explorers. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and other prestigious societies and associations, his last book is the critically acclaimed Ireland and the Crimean War (Dublin, 2002). He was recently appointed visiting researcher at the Department of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin.