Beginner’s Pluck: Maria Murphy

In her early 20s Maria was in a folk group, and she started writing lyrics, and some poetry. But it wasn’t until 2004, when she joined a creative writing group that she started taking writing seriously.

“Calling ourselves the Naas Harbour Writers, we self published a collection of writing.”

After college, Maria worked in charities in Cork, and then in London, where she was PA to a director of The Royal National Institute for the Blind. She married there, and moved back to Ireland when she was seven months pregnant.