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July 2008 Harper's

 * (sourced once already as )
 * lost his voice; no stage training, just life experience
 * "only talks to the press in connection to a film's opening"
 * ukelele
 * Maybury on his Edge performance, him on the part

Telegraph magazine

 * NOT ON THEIR SITE (copyright issues),
 * Neil Jordan, who directed him in his latest film, Breakfast on Pluto, remembers his first encounter with a young Murphy. In a Dublin editing suite he glimpsed by changes the rushes for a film called On The Edge .  ‘Here was this guy driving a car over a cliff, and he folded his arms and looked right at you.  That was Cillian.  It was extraordinary,’ the director recalls.  ‘Cillian’s got those amazing eyes - and he knows how not to blink.  It’s amazing the kind of effect he has on a viewer.’
 * WHEN HE GOT THE PART IN DISCO PIGS (could augment Disco Pigs section in support of an image)
 * HIS MOTHER PLAYS GUITAR
 * WHEN HE LEFT SCHOOL
 * SOURCE FOR "So New"
 * Songwriting - playing the ukelele
 * he was on the dole in Dublin for a year
 * "He is constantly in touch with his brother, now a design engineer, and his two sisters, studying in Ireland."
 * Meeting rock stars, he says, gives him a far bigger kick than meeting actors. "Every time I go to a gig," he admits with a smile, "there's a little voice inside me going, 'I wish it was me.'"

interview for BOP with WPS1.org/Stephen Schaefer

 * how to cite?
 * Started with drums

Edge of Love
The Age 8/29/08

The Water
Add that it made festivals, use quote from Dazed & Confused.

Movieline 9/11/09
Friends with Brendan Gleeson; mentor