Mary O'Malley

Mary O’Malley is an Irish poet born in Connemara and a native speaker of Irish. She was educated at University College-Galway and lived for many years in Portugal. She teaches at the National University of Ireland in Galway and has received a Hennessy Award, O'Malley has published six books, including The Knife in the Wave (Salmon, 1997) and The Boning Hall (New and Selected) from Carcanet in 2002. O’Malley lives in Moycullen.  "Violation" was first published in Shenandoah 51/2-3.