Professor Murphy has also worked in a number of other areas connected with
nineteenth-century Ireland. Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland:
Public and Private Spheres (1997), coedited with Margaret Kelleher, was the
first collection of essays to look systematically at the issue of gender during
the century. Murphy was the editor of Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2005) which examines the role of religion during the period. His edited work, Nos Autem: Castleknock College and its Contribution (1996) contains his history of an important Irish school. His book chapter, 'The Irish-Catholics-in-science debate: John Tyndall, Cardinal Cullen and the uses of science at Castleknock College in the nineteenth century' (2011) uses the same institution as a vantage point to consider the issue of science, while his article 'The role of Vincentian Parish Missions in the 'Irish Counter-Reformation' of the Mid-Nineteenth Century' (1984) draws attention to one of the most important factors in the 'devotional revolution' in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Finally, Professor Murphy has edited the work of an important twentieth-century Irish critic and religious and cultural commentator Peter Connolly, No Bland Facility: Selected Writings on Literature, Religion and Censorship (1991).