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Delia Murphy was born on 16 February, 1902 in United States, is an Irish singer. Discover Delia Murphy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 16 February, 1902
Birthday 16 February
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Date of death 11 February, 1971
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Nationality United States

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1901

They returned to Ireland in 1901 and purchased the large Mount Jennings Estate in Roundfort.

John encouraged Delia's interest in singing ballads from a young age.

He also allowed Irish travellers to camp on the estate.

According to her own account, she learned her first ballads at their campfires.

Delia was educated at Presentation Convent, Tuam; Dominican College, Dublin; and University College Galway (UCG), where she graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

1902

Delia Murphy Kiernan (16 February 1902 – 11 February 1971) was an Irish singer and collector of Irish ballads.

1924

In UCG she met Dr. Thomas J. Kiernan, and they married in 1924, on her 22nd birthday.

They had a son, Colm, and three daughters, Blon, Nuala and Orla.

Kiernan joined the Irish diplomatic service, where his first posting was to London.

While there Murphy sang at many venues including many gatherings of Irish emigrants and became quite well-known.

1930

She recorded several 78 rpm records in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

1939

In 1939 she recorded The Blackbird, The Spinning Wheel and Three Lovely Lassies for HMV.

1941

During World War II, she aided Vatican official, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, in saving the lives of 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews, while her husband, Dr. Thomas J. Kiernan, was the Irish Ambassador in Rome from 1941–46.

She was born in Ardroe, Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland to a well-off family.

Her father, John Murphy, from nearby Hollymount, made his fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush.

While in America, he married Ann Fanning from Roscrea, County Tipperary.

In 1941 Kiernan was appointed Irish Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See in Rome.

The Irish legation was the only English-speaking legation to remain open after the United States entered World War II.

Murphy became one of those who assisted Hugh O'Flaherty (the "Vatican pimpernel") in hiding Jews and escaped allied soldiers from the Nazis.

1943

In 1943, when Italy changed sides, many escaped POWs were helped by the legation to leave Italy.

1946

In 1946 she was awarded the rank of Dame Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

Kiernan later served as Irish High Commissioner and later first Ambassador in Australia, and later to West Germany, Canada, and the United States.

1961

In 1961, while she was living in Ottawa, Murphy made the recording of "The Queen of Connemara" produced by Kenny Goldstein.

Murphy and Kiernan bought a farmhouse in Jasper, Ontario, near the Rideau Canal where she spent most of her time, even after Kiernan was posted to Washington.

1962

In 1962 she recorded her only LP, The Queen of Connemara, for Irish Prestige Records, New York, on the cover of which her name appears alongside the LP title.

1967

Tom Kiernan died in December 1967.

1969

By 1969 Murphy's health was in decline.

In November of that year she sold her farmhouse in Canada and returned to Ireland.

She lived in a cottage in Strawberry Beds, Chapelizod, County Dublin.

1971

Murphy died of a massive heart attack on 11 February 1971, five days before her 69th birthday.

She had recorded upwards of 100 songs.