Talk:Murphy

Question
Does anyone know anything about Murphy familys that moved to Barbados years ago..probably during slavery? If they came from Ireland where exactly did they come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.65.40.222 (talk • contribs) 14:45, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Language name
The language is called Irish, not Gaelic. --67.171.102.73 06:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Irish or Irish Gaelic, a Goidelic language, in contrast to Irish English. All Goidelic languages can be referred to as Gaelic. 89.64.69.149 (talk) 00:10, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

The Green Murphy
I'm surprised there is still not an article on Wikipedia about the 'Green Murphy', that legendary building company that tens of thousands of Irish people worked for when they went to Britain. Who founded that company? Even the company website has no history about the company. However, I've answered my own question as it seems that the founder was one John J. Murphy from Kerry: http://www.ucc.ie/opa/honconfer/johnjmurphycitation.html. With that info, I got more about himself and his brother, Joe: http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2002/aug/04/murphy-brothers-rebuilt-london-in-green-and-grey/. Worth an article on these two boys. 86.42.119.12 (talk) 03:32, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * This is the talk page for making improvements to the Murphy article. To suggest a new article you want Requested articles.  You can always create an account and start typing yourself.  You obviously already know how to do that as you have posted here.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  07:58, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Ulster and Munster
Ulster and Munster are provinces, not counties. If the writer intended to say the counties contained within Ulster and Munster, then the wording should state exactly that, rather than implying that Ulster and Munster are counties of Ireland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.236.217.134 (talk) 01:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Duplicated lists of people with the same name
This article contains numerous instances of entries like this:
 * Xxx Murphy, several people
 * Xxx Murphy (yyy)
 * Xxx Murphy (zzz)

In each case "Xxx Murphy, several people" has a link to a disambiguation page which also has a list of people of that name. Ie we have duplicate lists. I suggest that the list of individuals ("Xxx Murph (yyy)" etc) should be removed from this page, and left to the disambiguation page, for ease of maintenance. Eg it should just be Mitch Ames (talk) 02:28, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Xxx Murphy (disambiguation page), several people


 * I thought about that myself. The question is, is it a really problematic maintenance issue?  There are not that many of them.  From the encyclopedia readers point of view, it is inconvenient for them to have to click on every dab page to find the entry they want.  I am presuming that they are not sure of the first name, if they knew that they would have got straight to the dab page rather than be looking through the full list.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  14:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

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To add to article
To add to article: an explanation why the spelling "Murphy" doesn't resemble the name "Murphy" is supposed to derive from: "Ó Murchú," except that they both start with "Mu." 173.88.241.33 (talk) 01:49, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the English form was derived from Ó Murchaidh rather than Ó Murchadha (same name, Murchadh, but different declension)? The last syllable would then have been pronounced [xˠɪ] or something very similar, and the English, who had lost their [x] by that time, would have adapted it as [fɪ] (cf. Ef_(Cyrillic)). 89.64.69.149 (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Murphy Coat of Arms
Currently there are two coats of arms representing the Murphys, but only the green one with the tree is displayed. Where is the red, black and white one with the lions and the wheat? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C8:C000:5182:F0A1:EB17:55C6:A4AF (talk) 22:10, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Red links
I understand that you wish to have a link to an article about Akash Murphy, but as long as there is no such article, there is nothing to link to. The whole point of a page like this one, is to lead the readers to the "Murphy" they are interested in, by linking them to an article with more information. In the case of Akash Murphy, I see that you have made a miniature draft article at Draft:Akash Murphy. If and when that draft has been expanded to a properly sourced article, it will be the time to make a linking. Without an article, the name will just stand out in red, and if you try to click the link, nothing will happen. So what is the point? To sum up: First the article, then the link. Regards! --T*U (talk) 20:12, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Adding to the above, further checking makes it look as if this is just a hoax. A Google search for "Akash Murphy" gives just a handful of hits, none of which looking remotely like possible sourcing for an article. No sign of any Bangladeshi actor or film director. --T*U (talk) 13:35, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Murchison
Is this surname another anglicisation of the Irish name referred to in the text? Harfarhs (talk) 15:04, 10 January 2024 (UTC)