This much I know: John A Murphy
I was a very bookish boy and in 1945 I won a County Council scholarship to study history at UCC. I could never have been able to go there on my parents’ slender resources.
It was a personal liberation to go into that class where the presence of girls was a new and welcome experience. I stayed in the Honan Hostel, where the O’Reilly Building now stands, which was a great experience as it had the air of a mini-university in its own right.
