Mary Dorcey
Mary Dorcey, poet and writer of fiction; (1950 - born in Dublin, and educated there and at the Open University and Paris VII University).
She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1990 for her short story collection A Noise from the Woodshed, and has been awarded five Arts Council Bursaries for Literature in 1990, 1995, 1999, 2005 and 2008 and also and Arts Council Travel Bursary in 2007. Her stories and poems have been anthologised in more than one hundred collections and her work is taught in Irish Studies and Women’s Studies courses in universities internationally. Her poetry is taught on both the Irish Junior Cert and on the British O Level English curriculum. It has been performed on radio and television (RTE and Channel 4). It has also been dramatised for stage productions in Ireland, Britain and Australia in In the Pink (The Raving Beauties) and Sunny Side Plucked.
She is at present a Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin. She is writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies where she gives seminars in contemporary English literature and leads a creative writing workshop. She has lived in the United States, England, France, Spain and Japan. For over fifteen years she has given talks and readings of her work at major art festivals and at universities and book shops throughout Ireland, Britain and Europe and the United States. She has recently completed her second novel 'A Fortunate Woman'.
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