Personal Reflections from Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy, Director, Sherkin Island Marine Station, published a popular weekly column in the Cork "Evening Echo", a daily evening paper for 5 years. Through this he kept us in touch with the islands and wasted no opportunity to draw parallel with life as it is and was when he grew up in Cork City. Some of these articles are now available in book form in An Islander Looks Back and Rocking the Boat.
Matt Murphy is an islander by adoption, with his feet firmly planted on his beloved Sherkin Island. Nevertheless he is conscious of, and proud of, his roots in Cork City.
The author reminisces on his childhood, boyhood, youth and manhood on the mainland of Ireland; on its mountains, lakes and rivers; and finally on Sherkin Island where he now resides
