Selected Essays
Selected Essays, Interviews and Commentary on Mary O’Donnell’s work:
Otra Irlanda: La estética postnacionalista de poetas y artistas irlandesas contemporáneas (Universidad de Oviedo, 2000);
Luz Mar González Arias: Cuerpo, mito y teoría feminista: re/visions de EVA en autoras irlandesas contemporáneas (Universidad de Oviedo, 1997);
Post/Imperial Encounters, Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations, ed. Juan E. Tazón Salces and Isabel Carrera Suárez (Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2005);
Uncanny Families: Neo-Gothic Motifs and the Theme of Social Change in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: Dr. Anne Fogarty, Irish University Review, Spring/Summer 2000.
En Santiago de Compostela con Mary O’Donnell, Manuela Palacios, Boletín Galego de Literatura, No. 38, 2007
'Coming Up for Air: Conversations with Irish Women Writers', by Dr. Helen Thompson, (University of Syracuse Press, Spring 2003);
'Uncanny Families: Contemporary Irish women's Fiction' by Dr. Anne Fogarty, Irish University Review, Spring/Summer 2000
Selected Essays by Mary O'Donnell
Micheal O’Siadhail, European Poet (Musics of Belonging, Carysford Press, 2007)
‘The Journey from Imagination into Print: an overview of Irish Women’s Writing, 1980-2006’. Lecture for the Facultade de Filoloxia, A literatura en feminino/masculino, University of Santiago de Compostela, Summer course, July 2006.
The above paper is also published in 2009 in the anthology ‘Writing Bonds’ (Peter Lang).
Irish University Review, Special Issue – Eavan Boland: In Her Own Image: An Assertion that Myths are made by Men, by the Poet in Transition; Irish University Review, 1994; this essay is excerpted in the Eavan Boland Sourcebook, editor Jody Allen Randolph, 2006.
‘Rough Hands and a Sick Culture’: The Irish Writer and Cultural Tourism; Irish University Review, Autum/Winter 1995
‘O Magnificent Why! Spatial Nosing: Introduction to Eithne Strong’s Collected Poetry, Salmon, 1991.
‘Better pass boldly into that other world … in the full glory of some passion’ The writer, imagination, and Joyce.’ Lecture to the James Joyce Summer School, 1994.
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.
