Dorothy Molloy

Long Distance Swimmer Dorothy Molloy

Long-distance Swimmer is a strange and wonderful posthumous collection of poems by Dorothy Molloy, who died in 2004. The poems spring from Dorothy's life in Spain and Ireland, and from her wide reading and her obsessive need to try and explain, to herself and others, the mysteries of connections and separations, the paradoxes of life and love. Dorothy Molloy was born in Ballina, Co Mayo and studied languages at University College Dublin after which she went to live in Madrid and Barcelona. She began her writing career after returning to Ireland in 1979, only to succumb to cancer ten days before her first collection was published. This is the second posthumous collection assembled by her husband from the papers she left after her death.