Mary Dorcey

Mary Dorcey is a critically acclaimed Irish poet, short story writer and novelist and author of eight previous books of poetry and fiction. She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1990 for her short, story collection A Noise from the Woodshed. Her poetry has been the subject of countless show more academic critiques and theses, and has been, anthologised in more than one hundred collections. She is a member of Aosdna, the Irish Academy of Writers and Artists and is a Research Associate at Trinity College where for many years she taught at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies. The first Irish woman in history to advocate for LGBT rights, she is a lifelong activist for gay and women's rights. She is founding member of Irish Women United, The Sexual Liberation Movement, and Women for Radical Change. show less