James Vincent Murphy

James Vincent Murphy (7 July 1880 – 5 July 1946) was an Irish translator, writer, and journalist, who published one of the first complete English translations of Mein Kampf in 1939.[1]

James Vincent Murphy
Born	(1880-07-07)7 July 1880 Innishannon (Knockavilla)
Died	5 July 1946(1946-07-05) (aged 65)[1] Bishop's Stortford
Occupation	Translator, writer, journalist
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	St. Patrick's College
Notable works	Translation of Mein Kampf
Spouse	Mary Murphy

Murphy attended St. Patrick's College. He was ordained a priest at St. Patrick's College Chapel in Maynooth, in 1905.

He left clerical service, and by 1920 was married and working as a journalist.[2] Before the Second World War he lived for some time in Italy and Germany.

Works

• (transl.) Max Planck, Where is science going?, 1932 (preface by Albert Einstein)
• (transl.) Emil Ludwig, Leaders of Europe, 1934
• Adolf Hitler: the drama of his career, 1934
• (transl.) Erwin Schrödinger, Science and the human temperament, 1935, Allen & Unwin, (biographical introduction by James Murphy, foreword by Ernest Rutherford)
• (transl.) Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1939
• Who sent Rudolf Hess?, 1941

References

Notes

1. Murphy, John (14 January 2015). "Why did my grandfather translate Mein Kampf?". BBC News. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
2. An Irishmans Diary about the Corkman who translated Mein Kampf by Frank McNally, Irish Times, January 23, 2015.

Bibliography

• Barnes, James J.; Patience P. Barnes (1987). James Vincent Murphy : Translator and Interpreter of Fascist Europe, 1880–1946. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-8191-6054-7.
• Barnes, James J.; Patience P. Barnes (2008). Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930–39. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-07267-0.

External links

• Works by or about James Vincent Murphy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)