Mary O'Malley (poet)

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Mary O'Malley
Born1954
Connemara, Galway, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Education University College Galway, Galway

Mary O'Malley (born 1954 in Connemara, Ireland) is an Irish poet whose work has been published in various literary magazines. She has published seven poetry books since 1990 and her poems have been translated into several languages.

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Life

Mary O’Malley was born in Connemara and is a native Irish speaker. [1] She was educated at University College, Galway. She spent eight years living in Portugal where she taught at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She returned to Ireland in the late 1980s, beginning a poetry career in 1990. [2]

She lives near the village of Moycullen. [3] She teaches on the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway. [4] [5] She has held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. [6] She has also held writing residencies at the Irish College in Paris, Tarragona, Spain and Manhattanville College, New York. [7]

Her work has been published in Krino, Poetry Ireland, The Seneca Review, Atlanta Review , Da Braake Honde, Lictungen, The Lifelines Anthology and the Review of Irish American Studies. [8]

She read at the 2009 Dublin Book Festival. [9]

She was Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at the University of Limerick in 2016. [10]

She is an elected member of Aosdána, the Irish national association of creative artists.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mary O'Malley". Shenandoah. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Poetry International". Poetry International Rotterdam. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 January 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Carcanet Press - Mary O'Malley". Carcanet.co.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "Poetry Initiative: Featured Poets". Sc.edu. 22 January 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  6. ↑ "Award-winning Poet Mary O'Malley Named Villanova University's Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies". Villanova University. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Poetry by Mary O'Malley". The Blue Nib. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "mary_o_malley". Conference.campusengage.ie. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  9. ↑ Archived 8 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ "Mary O'Malley | University of Limerick". ulsites.ul.ie. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  11. ↑ "Mary O'Malley". Carcanet Press. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  12. ↑ "NUI Galway Announces 2021 Honorary Degree Recipients". NUI Galway. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  13. ↑ "A Cautionary Tale by Mary O'Malley | Poetry Ireland". www.poetryireland.ie. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  14. ↑ Higgins, Kevin (23 November 2007). "Over The Edge: Galway launch of SALMON: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007, edited by Jessie Lendennie". Overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com. Retrieved 19 August 2013.

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