Irish University Review, Spring/Summer 1993: Special Issue on poet Eavan Boland: In Her Own Image: An Assertion that Myths are made by Men, by the Poet in Transition.

Autumn 1993: O Magnificent Why! Essay/Foreword to Spatial Nosing, New and Selected Poems by Eithne Strong (Salmon Poetry, 1993).

July 1994: Lecture for the James Joyce Summer School: 'Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion … 'the writer, imagination and Joyce,''

Irish University Review, Spring 1996: 'Rough hands and a sick culture …' The Writer and Cultural Tourism.

1992, Mary O'Donnell received an Arts Council Bursary in Literature.

She was the Irish recipient of the 'Suspended Sentence' Residency to Australia and a participant at the Sydney International Writers' Festival and the Bloomsday celebrations in Beijing in May/June 2001.