Mary Dorcey's work is known for centring feminist and queer themes, specifically lesbian love and lesbian eroticism.
16 Facts About Mary Dorcey
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Mary Dorcey has published ten books, including seven poetry collections, a collection of short stories, a novel, and one novella.
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Mary Dorcey has won five major awards for literature from the Arts Council of Ireland in 1990,1995,1999,2005, and 2008.
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In 2010, following nominations by the poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and novelist Eugene McCabe, Dorcey was elected to the Irish Academy of Writers and Artists, Aosdana.
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Mary Dorcey's poems are taught on both the Irish Junior Certificate English curriculum and on the British O Level English curriculum.
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Mary Dorcey was the first Irish student at the Open University in England and attended Paris Diderot University in Paris, France.
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Mary Dorcey has lived and worked in the United States, England, France, Spain, and Japan, and now resides in County Wicklow.
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Mary Dorcey was the first Irish woman to address gay and lesbian lives in poetry and fiction.
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Mary Dorcey has since published six additional poetry collections, a novel, a novella, and a collection of short stories.
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Mary Dorcey's writing is noted as the first work of Irish literature to portray romantic and erotic relationships between women.
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Mary Dorcey's themes include the cathartic role of the outsider, political injustice, and the nature of the erotic power to subvert and transfigure.
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Mary Dorcey's work has been performed on radio and television, and her stories have been dramatized for radio and for stage productions in Ireland, Britain, and Australia: In the Pink and Sunny Side Plucked.
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Mary Dorcey's poems have been performed on radio and television stations, such as BBC, RTE, and Channel 4, and have been taught on the English curriculum for the Irish Junior Certificate and British GCSEs.
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Mary Dorcey's stories have been dramatized for radio and stage productions in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Mary Dorcey is currently a research associate at Trinity College Dublin, where she conducted contemporary English literature seminars and led a creative writing workshop during her ten years as a writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies.
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Mary Dorcey taught Creative Writing courses at the University College Dublin's School for Justice.