NOTES for future development edit

July 2008 Harper's edit

  • (sourced once already as < ref name="Bazaar" / >)
  • 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 edit

  • NOT ON THEIR SITE (copyright issues), < ref name="TeleMag" / >
  • 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 edit

  • how to cite?
  • Started with drums

Edge of Love edit

The Age 8/29/08

The Water edit

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

Movieline 9/11/09 edit

Friends with Brendan Gleeson; mentor