Dolores Walshe (born 1949) is an Irish short story writer, novelist and playwright.
Dolores Walshe | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
Biography
editDolores Walshe was born in Dublin and grew up in the Liberties in the inner city. She graduated with a degree in Arts from University College Dublin and then got a Higher Diploma from Trinity College, Dublin.[1]
She has won grants, bursaries and awards for her story- and play-writing. Walshe was awarded a second Arts Council Bursary in Literature 2014. She has won a number of fiction awards including the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award in 2012 and the James Joyce Jerusalem Bloomsday Award. She has come 2nd in the Francis MacManus Award twice. In 2017 she won the Berlin Writing Prize. Walshe has also won a number of awards as a playwright, such as the Listowel Writers’ Week Play Award and Irish Stage and Screen Award. In 1987 she won the OZ Whitehead/Society of Irish Playwrights/PEN Playwriting Literary Prize. Walshe was also winner of the 1991 Irish Stage and Screen Playwriting Competition.[2]
Walshe's plays have been produced by The Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin, and she has been published by Carysfort Press, UCD, and others.[1][3][4]
Her work deals with themes including race, feminism and poverty.[1]
She currently lives in Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Bibliography
edit- A Country in Our Heads
- In the Talking Dark
- Moon Mad, 1993
- Where the Trees Weep, 1992
References and sources
edit- ^ a b c O'Beirne, Patricia (13 February 2019). "Provoking performance: challenging the people, the state and the patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre". NUI Galway. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Dolores Walshe: The Stranded Hours Between (1989)". Irish Women Dramatists: 1908-2001. Syracuse University Press. 2014. pp. 105–170. JSTOR j.ctt1j1nv0b.9. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Andrews Lane Theatre". Irish Playography. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Seen and Heard Six new plays by Irish Women". Carysfort Press. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ al-Masri, Maram; Dorgan, trans. Theo. "Southword Journal". Munster Literature Centre Home. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Playography Ireland". PlayographyIreland. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Berlin Writing Prize: An Interview with Dolores Walshe". Circus Berlin. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Kearney, E.; Headrick, C. (2014). Irish Women Dramatists: 1908-2001. Irish Studies. Syracuse University Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-8156-5292-2. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Pierce, D. (2000). Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork University Press. p. 1328. ISBN 978-1-85918-208-6. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Sage, L.; Sage, P.E.L.L.; Lorna, S.; Greer, G.; Showalter, E.; Thomson Gale (Firm) (1999). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Gale virtual reference library. Cambridge University Press. p. 649. ISBN 978-0-521-66813-2. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Francis MacManus Short Story Tuesday 6 October 2015 - RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition". RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Berlin, T.R. (2018). HOME IS ELSEWHERE: An Anthology: The 2017 Berlin Writing Prize Anthology. epubli. p. 5. ISBN 978-3-7450-8396-5. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Etienne, A.; Dubost, T. (2017). Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage. Springer International Publishing. p. 278. ISBN 978-3-319-59710-2. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ V. South Africa, Racism, and Irish Sectarianism in Dolores Walshe's In the Talking Dark and Damian Smyth's Soldiers of the Queen : Contemporary Irish Theatre: Transnational Practices. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Leeney, C. (2001). Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women. Carysfort Press Ltd. Carysfort Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-9534257-3-0. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Barfoot, C.C.; van den Doel, R. (1995). Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama. Costerus. New series. Rodopi. p. 187. ISBN 978-90-5183-761-2. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Patricia, O'Beirne (13 February 2019). Provoking performance: challenging the people, the state and the patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre. ARAN Home (Thesis). Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Play time". The Irish Times. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2019.