Turner, Julia: - JULIA TURNER was born in Dublin, Ireland. On completion of five years' post-secondary studies, she accepted an offer of a teaching job on Vancouver Island. Meeting her husband in the school staff room and marrying in Dublin, she then settled back on the Island for a total of 46 years. In 2015, now a widow of 12 years, Turner moved back to "The Old Country", to Connemara, where she continued the research and the writing on this exceptional Murphy Family.