Mary Dorcey
| Mary Dorcey | |
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| Born |
1950 County Dublin |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet |
| Nationality | Irish |
Mary Dorcey (born 1950) is an Irish award winning and best selling author, poet, short story writer and novelist.[1][2]
Life and education
Mary Dorcey was born in 1950 in County Dublin, Ireland. She was educated in Ireland and at the Open University and in France at University Paris Diderot, Paris 7. She is a Research Associate at Trinity College, Dublin[1] where for ten years she was a writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, during which time she conducted seminars on contemporary English literature and led a creative writing workshop. She has also taught in the School for Justice at University College Dublin[1][3][4]
Dorcey was the first woman in Irish history (1974 to the present) to advocate in Ireland and internationally for LGBT rights. She was a founder member of Irish Women United, Women for Radical Change and The Movement for Sexual Liberation.[1][5]
She has published five collections of poetry, one novel, one collection of short stories and one novella.[3] She has lived in the United States, England, France, Spain and Japan.[6] She is a member of Aosdána the Irish Academy of Writers and Artists. Dorcey lives in Co. Wicklow, Ireland.[3][4]
Recognition
Dorcey is a member by peer election of the Irish Academy of Arts and Literature, Aosdána . She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Literature in 1990 for her Short Story collection A Noise from the Woodshed.[1][3][4] Her novel Biography of Desire has been both a best seller and achieved critical acclaim and has been reprinted three times.[3]
Her poetry and fiction has for twenty five years been taught internationally at universities throughout Europe, the United States and Canada. It has been reproduced in more than one hundred collections. Since 1987 her writing has attracted a wealth of international research and has been the subject of countless academic essays and critiques.[3][7] Her poetry is taught on both the Irish Junior Certificate English course and on the British O Level English curriculum. 'FIRST LOVE' has been selected once more for the revised Junior Cycle.The same poem was included in the BBC Anthology 'A Hundred Favourite Poems of Childhood.' Her poetry has been performed on radio and television (RTÉ, BBC, and Channel 4.) and her stories have been dramatized for radio (BBC) and for stage productions in Ireland, Britain and Australia: 'In the Pink' (The Raving Beauties) and, 'Sunny Side Plucked.'[1][3][4]
She has won five major awards for literature from the Arts Council of Ireland: 1990, 1995, 1999 and 2005 and 2008.[3]
Themes
Much of her work explores issues of sexuality, identity and the multifaceted lives of women through their role as mothers, daughters, and lovers. Her themes include the cathartic role of the outsider, political injustice and the nature of the erotic power to subvert and transfigure. She has won popular and international critical acclaim for her portrayal of romantic and erotic relationships between women and her subversive and tender view of the mother/daughter dynamic.[1][5]
- Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues .One of the first was Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1981).Well-known authors, including MARY DORCEY, Maeve Binchy, Zoé Fairbanks, ... Finally, the self is transformed and begins to love and value from a center ...Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender - 2004 - Reference..https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1135963150,
Bibliography
Poetry
- Kindling (London, Onlywomen Press, 1989)
- Moving Into The Space Cleared by Our Mothers (Salmon Poetry, 1991)
- The River That Carries Me (Salmon Poetry, 1995)
- Like Joy In Season, Like Sorrow. (Salmon Poetry, 2001)
- Perhaps The heart Is Constant After All. (Salmon Poetry, 2012)
Books, essays and short stories
- A Noise from the Woodshed: Short Stories (London, Onlywomen Press, 1989)
- Scarlet O'Hara (in the anthology In and Out of Time) (London. Onlywomen Press, 1990)
- Biography of Desire (Dublin, Poolbeg 1997)
- A Glorious Day (The Faber Book Of Best New Irish Short Stories 2006–2007 By David Marcus)
- The Lift Home(Virgins and Hyacinths, Ed. Caroline Walsh.1993.)
- The Orphan;' (In Sunshine or in Shadow) Ed. Mary Maher. 1999.
Staged dramatisations
- In the Pink (The Raving Beauties)
- Sunny Side Plucked(Dublin, Project Arts Centre)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gonzalez, Alexander G. (2006). Irish women writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 102. ISBN 0-313-32883-8.
- ↑ "Oxford Biography".
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Aosdana Biography". Aosdana. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "Irish writers online". Irish writers online. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- 1 2 Heather Ingman (2007). Twentieth-century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- ↑ Murphy, Lizz (1996). Wee girls: women writing from an Irish perspective. Spinifex Press. p. 11.
- ↑ Stephanie Norgate (2013). Poetry and Voice: A Book of Essays. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 275.
Further reading
- Naomi HolochKnopf (2010). The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction. Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 368.
Bisexuality, Queer Theory, and Mary Dorcey's Biography of Desire www.postcolonialweb.org/poldiscourse/casablanca/pratt2.html May 31, 2001 - Bisexuality, Queer Theory and Mary Dorcey's Biography of Desire: An .... categorically that the first person I loved was of the male sex" (153). Bisexuality, Queer Theory, and Mary Dorcey's Biography of Desire postcolonialweb.org
- TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE by IRISH WOMEN: Nation and Genderhttps://books.google.com/books?isbn=0754635384
HEATHER INGMAN - 2007 - Literary Criticism (Dorcey, 1989, 158- 9) The semiotic world 'beyond the grasp of speech' ... Kate observes to herself that: MARY DORCEY continues her exploration of the life of the ...
- 'The following article aims to examine Mary Dorcey’s poem “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear,” included in the 1991 volume 'Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers.'
Katarzyna Poloczek, University of Łódź: 'Women’s Power To Be Loud.' 1
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