Dolores Walshe Explained

Dolores Walshe
Birth Place:Dublin
Nationality:Irish

Dolores Walshe (born 1949) is an Irish short story writer, novelist and playwright.

Biography

Dolores 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.

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.[1]

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.[2] [3]

Her work deals with themes including race, feminism and poverty.[4]

She currently lives in Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Book: Irish Women Dramatists: 1908-2001 . Syracuse University Press . 2014 . 105–170 . Dolores Walshe: The Stranded Hours Between (1989) . j.ctt1j1nv0b.9 . 25 January 2024.
  2. Web site: 27 Oct 2022 . Andrews Lane Theatre . 23 March 2024 . Irish Playography.
  3. Web site: Seen and Heard Six new plays by Irish Women . 25 January 2024 . Carysfort Press.
  4. Web site: O'Beirne . Patricia . 13 February 2019 . Provoking performance: challenging the people, the state and the patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre . 25 January 2024 . NUI Galway.
  5. Web site: al-Masri . Maram . Dorgan . trans. Theo . Southword Journal . 2019-10-11 . Munster Literature Centre Home.
  6. Web site: 2019-08-30 . Playography Ireland . 2019-10-11 . PlayographyIreland.
  7. Web site: 2019-03-14 . Berlin Writing Prize: An Interview with Dolores Walshe . 2019-10-11 . Circus Berlin.
  8. Book: Kearney, E. . Irish Women Dramatists: 1908-2001 . Headrick . C. . Syracuse University Press . 2014 . 978-0-8156-5292-2 . Irish Studies . 104 . 2019-10-11.
  9. Book: Pierce, D. . Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader . Cork University Press . 2000 . 978-1-85918-208-6 . 1328 . 2019-10-11.
  10. Book: Sage, L. . The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English . Sage . P.E.L.L. . Lorna . S. . Greer . G. . Showalter . E. . Thomson Gale (Firm) . Cambridge University Press . 1999 . 978-0-521-66813-2 . Gale virtual reference library . 649 . 2019-10-11 . registration.
  11. Web site: 2015-10-06 . Francis MacManus Short Story Tuesday 6 October 2015 - RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition . 2019-10-11 . RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition.
  12. Book: Berlin, T.R. . HOME IS ELSEWHERE: An Anthology: The 2017 Berlin Writing Prize Anthology . epubli . 2018 . 978-3-7450-8396-5 . 5 . 2019-10-11.
  13. Book: Etienne, A. . Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage . Dubost . T. . Springer International Publishing . 2017 . 978-3-319-59710-2 . 278 . 2019-10-11.
  14. Book: 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 . 2018-07-10 . 2019-10-11.
  15. Book: Leeney, C. . Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women . Carysfort Press . 2001 . 978-0-9534257-3-0 . Carysfort Press Ltd . 9 . 2019-10-11.
  16. Book: Barfoot, C.C. . Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama . van den Doel . R. . Rodopi . 1995 . 978-90-5183-761-2 . Costerus. New series . 187 . 2019-10-11.
  17. Patricia . O'Beirne . Provoking performance: challenging the people, the state and the patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre . 2019-02-13 . 2019-10-11 . ARAN Home.
  18. News: 2013-03-21 . Play time . 2019-10-11 . The Irish Times.

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