Paul Murray (poet)

Paul Brendan Murray, O.P. (born 26 November 1947) is an Irish Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, poet, writer, and professor.

Murray was born at Newcastle, County Down, in Northern Ireland. In 1966 he joined the Irish Dominican Province, and was ordained a priest in 1973. Since 1994 he has lived in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum. He holds a doctorate in English Literature from University College Dublin. In 2012 Paul Murray was conferred with honorary degree of Master of Sacred Theology at a ceremony in St Mary's Priory, Tallaght, Dublin.